The Last Days of T.E. Lawrence: A Leaf in the Wind

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Arguably the finest offensive line coach in the history of professional football, Jim Hanifan of the St. Louis Rams tells the story of his life in the NFL as he enters his final season.

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Lehman brings together new work on masculinity in film by established film scholars, new academics, performance artists, and cultural critics. The essays analyze such trends as the role of gay men in saving heterosexuality, the emergence of the new queer cinema, the prevalence of the "melodramatic penis" in current film, the resurgence of white masculinity, masculinity in World War II films, and the relationship between nationhood and the male body in 1990s Canadian cinema.

Impossible Bodies: Femininity and Masculinity at the Movies (Comedia)

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Impossible Bodies: Femininity and Masculinity at the Movies (Comedia)
Christ Holmlund
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 0415185750

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Impossible Bodies investigates issues of ethnicity, gender and sexuality in contemporary Hollywood. Examining stars from Clint Eastwood and Arnold Schwarzenegger to Whoopi Goldberg, Jennifer Lopez and Dolly Parton, Chris Holmlund focuses on actors whose physique or appearance puts them at the margins of Hollywood film, and yet who occupy shifting and key positions in contemporary mainstream cinema. Grouped into three sections, "gesturing towards genres," "siding with sidekicks" and "staring at stars," chapters examine a range of "impossible bodies" on film from the Pumping Iron documentaries to The Quick and the Dead.

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The rhymes of Ironquill
Eugene Fitch Ware
Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B00085UMJQ

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Rhymes of Ironquill [microform]
Eugene Fitch Ware
Manufacturer: T.J. Kellam
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Rhymes of Ironquill [pseud.]
Eugene Fitch Ware
Manufacturer: T.J. Kellam
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Some of the Rhymes of Ironquill
Ironquill
Manufacturer: CRANE CO
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000SNR4OY

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SOME OF THE RHYMES OF IRONQUILL (A Book of Moods)

Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons
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ASIN: B000G3JF20

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Some Rhymes of Ironquill of Kansas
Eugene Fitch). (WARE
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Some Rhymes of Ironquill of Kansas
Ironquill [Eugene F. Ware]
Manufacturer: A.C.McClurg
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Rhymes of Ironquill
J.A. Hammerton
Manufacturer: George Redway
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Binding: Hardcover
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Rhymes of Ironquill
Eugene F. Ware
Manufacturer: G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS
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Some of the Rhymes of Ironquill
Ironquill
Manufacturer: CRANE CO
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Beating the Fianchetto Defences
Efstratios Grivas
Manufacturer: Gambit Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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Chess Explained: The Queen's Indian

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ASIN: 1904600484

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Grivas provides a full and detailed repertoire for White against five important openings: the Grünfeld, King's Indian, Benoni, Benko and Modern. In each case, he has recommended a line in which he has a wealth of experience, and has played a significant personal role in developing over many years. The recommendations are geared towards posing Black unconventional problems: your opponents will not be able to churn out lengthy memorized variations, but will need to solve problems at the board in positions that are somewhat different in character from those normally reached in these openings. Grivas has also chosen the repertoire so that it forms a seamless whole, and will fit alongside an English or Réti move-order, in addition to a standard 1 d4 repertoire.

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Written by well-respected educators in the field, this skills-focused introduction to supervision captures the reality of supervising in the 2000s. It takes readers on the job by first explaining the job of supervisor, and then featuring a wide range of examples of how supervisors operate in real situations. The focus is on key skills needed for effective supervision—e.g., goal-setting, delegating, budgeting, interviewing, negotiating, counseling, coaching, conducting groups meetings, and handling grievances. Rich in instructional aids and experiential opportunities, it features lots of vignettes and visual stimuli to make concepts come alive. KEY TOPICS A four-part organization covers: an introduction; planning, organizing, staffing, and controlling; stimulating individual and group performance; and coping with workplace dynamics. For future supervisors, on-the-job supervisors, and other first-line management personnel.

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Sweet Deal.......2007-02-23

i only waited two and a half days, brand new book, great buy, great price!

Not rocket science........2007-01-03

This book should be called Common Sense for dummies. Anyone who has ever had a job should already know everything in this book. It is super easy to understand. Lets just say I read about one third of it and still got an A in this class.

Excellent Resource.......2006-09-25

This book was enjoyable to read, surprisingly enough, for a text book. I have referred back to this text book on numerous occasions. The text is timely and relevant,

A must read for any supervisor or mid level manager.......2001-02-20

This is by far and away the best book on supervision that I have ever read. I have used this book extensively to train first line supervisors and mid level managers in Eastern Europe to develop their management skills. The book effectively condenses the management courses I took during a 2 year MBA program into a well-organized manual. The book is easy to read, to the point, and replete with examples. It captures the essential concepts on the margins of each page and provides a review at the end of the chapter. Moreover, it offers case studies and self-assessment tests to reinforce concepts.

This book is an excellent resource for private study, professional programs and universities. My only regret is that this text or its companion, "Management Today" were not utilized in any of my undergraduate or graduate management courses.

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Mark Doty's prose has been hailed as "tempered and tough, sorrowing and serene" (The New York Times Book Review) and "achingly beautiful" (The Boston Globe). In Still Life with Oysters and Lemon he offers a stunning exploration of our attachment to ordinary things-how we invest objects with human store, and why

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Good Book. .......2007-03-10

This was a well written book. Very moving! Makes you stand back, and take another look at still life.

A Thing Of Beauty.......2002-04-11

Mark Doty begins this book by describing a 350 year old Dutch painting "Still Life with Oysters and Lemon" that he has fallen in love with at the Metropolitan Museum. He then meanders to memories of his "Mamaw" from long ago in East Tennessee-- surely only Southerners call grandparents by that name-- to a poem by Cavafy, to buying an old Italianate Victorian House in Vermont with his partner who later died of AIDS. Along the way, Mr. Doty muses on the subject of balance: the desire to be in a relationship and the need to be free, the balance of order versus clutter, of staying rooted in one place and the need to travel-- and the joy of collecting simple, everyday imperfect things picked up in flea markets rather than perfect expensive objects.

There are so many good things to say about this little 70 page gem that one hardly knows where to begin. Too often I read a work of nonfiction and wish it had remained a short magazine article. That is not so with this book. I wanted it to go on and on. Whether or not the author is correct in his analysis of still life painting, he is completely convincing. Of course, his language is always both concise and beautiful and never gets in the way of what he is saying. Near the end of the book Mr. Doty says "What makes a poem a poem, finally, is that it is unparaphrasable. . . I may try to explain it or represent it in other terms, but then some element of its life will always be missing. It is the same with painting." Such a statement perfectly describes this little masterpiece.

A seamless merging of painting and poetry.......2001-07-03

Mark Doty has done the impossible. In STILL LIFE WITH OYSTERS AND LEMON he has not only written an extended essay (read epic poem) about his encounter with a simple Dutch Still Life painting, but he has also produced what must become the definitive map for looking, seeing, studying and describing the essence of art in a way that encourages us all to return to the pursuit of beauty. Doty has proved his credentials in art hisory and art technique so that he is able to find the essence of a still life, rhapsodize on the quality of light as captured by an everyday object that makes a centuries old painting seem immediate to our own home, and in doing so reveals his own history of memories, lovers, favorite objects, the passage of time as participants in the transitory moment we call life. So many art critics and art historians have attempted to find this plane of understanding and enlightment with only minimal degrees of success. As a curator and essayist about art I am humbled and in awe. Mark Doty is one of the finest poets in America today and knows his way with words, with phrases that illuminate his stances, with defining emotions inaudible to most of us. But this small book is more than an homage to a particular still life painting (though on that merit alone he wins the competition!). This is a tender, thoughtful journey toward discovering beauty that daily surrounds us, a call to accept the transitory nature in all things and to experience them while we may. No fatalism here, just a door opened to appreciate the cycle of being alive...which just happens to warmly include the aspect of dying as part of that totality. As in Still Life painting: artists have selflessly recreated moments precious to them, frozen them in time to stave off the finite, and in doing so have left us with miraculous images to incorporate into our psyches for perpetuating beauty. This book is a must for art students, for art lovers, and for everyone who yearns to understand the journey of the soul. As Doty informs us, paraphrasing poetry or a painting as focused as a still life is impossible; by nature the essence has been distilled. Writing a review of such a book is near impossible. Gift yourself with a book to which you will return as often as the author has returned to Still Life with Oysers and Lemon!

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In 1861 young Joseph Twichell cut short his seminary studies to become a Union Army chaplain in New York's Excelsior Brigade. A middle-class New England Protestant, Twichell served for three years in a regiment manned mostly by poor Irish American Catholics. This selection of Twichell's letters to his Connecticut family will rank him alongside the Civil War's most literate and insightful firsthand chroniclers of life on the road, in battle, and in camp. As a noncombatant, he at once observed and participated in the momentous events of the Peninsula and Wilderness Campaigns and at the Second Bull Run, as well as at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Spotsylvania.

Twichell writes about politics and slavery and the theological and cultural divide between him and his men. Most movingly, he tells of tending the helpless, burying the dead, and counseling the despondent. Alongside accounts of a run-in with slave hunters, a massive withdrawal of wounded soldiers from Richmond, and other extraordinary events, Twichell offers close-up views of his commanding officer, the "political general" Daniel Sickles, surely one of the most colorful and controversial leaders on either side.

Civil War scholars and enthusiasts will welcome this fresh voice from an underrepresented class of soldier, the army chaplain. Readers who know of Twichell's later life as a prominent minister and reformer or as Mark Twain's closest friend will appreciate these insights into his early, transforming experiences.

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insight...history...

"War is my food."

a beautifully-written account of a country

Great Book.

author embraces his racism

In the Land of Magic Soldiers: A Story of White and Black in West Africa
Daniel Bergner
Manufacturer: Picador
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ASIN: 031242292X
Release Date: 2004-09-09

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An Los Angeles Times Best Book 2003In Sierra Leone, rampaging soldiers have made a custom of hacking off the hands of their victims, then letting them live as the ultimate emblem of terror. The country is so desperate that, forty years after independence, its people long to be recolonized. In this book, the acclaimed author of novelist and journalist follows a set of Western would-be saviors and a set of Sierra Leoneans, who take us into a land of beauty, horror, resilience and redemption. From mercenaries to missionaries, child soldiers to parent fugitives, Bergner tells this racially charged story with sensitivity and precision, creating an unforgettable work of literary reportage.

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insight...history..........2004-02-18

some good insight into the mentalities of the people of seirra leone and some interesting history. it's about a reality of today that compares to a reality of 2000 years ago in it's brutality and ignorance. the author tries to play up the black/white race issue a bit too much, i guess in effort to create controversy? i applause the information, the "reporting", but it definetly could have been edited and written better.

"War is my food.".......2004-02-03

What a heartbreaking book this is. Sierra Leone at the time of this writing was painfully creeping out of a collapsed state, a nightmare world of omni-hostile gangs, rogue militias, soul-wringing atrocities: the whole awful image of an imploded African society. As one interviewee says, the culture had been drawn down to zero. What was the cause? What could the solution be?

Author Bergner could easily have perpetrated a standard piece of parachute journalism on this wretched backwater sorespot, but he didn't. He spent some quantity time here, and followed developments. He writes with journalistic vividness which only sometimes strains for an elegaic tone. Most of the time his material supplies all the drama necessary.

We meet a missionary family, fired up with a purposeful vision for social justice. We meet them again some time later, after all their good works have been reduced by the civil war and general lawlessness to ashes, and with their last project, a school, threatened with abandonment. It's a heart-rending example of how so much of the West's very best altruistic efforts in Africa have been dashed to spray in the end.

We also meet victims of the guerillas' amputation squads. One, a man named Lamin, somehow kept his equanimity, while a compatriot who suffered the same horrible fate lapsed into catatonia. Lamin's impressions of New York while there to be fitted for prosthetic hands are especially interesting.

A detachment of British Marines, reassuringly determined and competent in comparison the Keystone Kops-like UN troops who had been held hostage by rebels, set to work restoring order in the capital and training the remnants of the national army. But is this rescue or re-colonialization? The question troubles few natives, but Bergner scrupulously takes note of those troubled few.

More problematic is an expatriate Rhodesian mercernary, fighting rebels with an old Soviet attack helicopter, and being none too careful about avoiding civilians. The "correct" attitude is to loathe him--yet his fighting in the field saves the capital, and his money-favoring among locals eases a lot of hurt that would otherwise go uneased.

Bergner candidly admits the psychic indigestion that the racial connotations of the whole ugly mess stir up within him. He protests to some natives who all but quote Kipling and Joseph Conrad at him, insisting that whites are fully as capable of the degradation happening there as the rebels and gangs have been. But in Sierra Leone in the Nineties, it is the missionaries and the British trying to salvage this country, and not the other way around, and Bergner records his creeped-out reaction when he entertains the idea that the self-deprecating natives may be right. Some otherwise astute Western observers are frequently guilty of denying Africans their full measure of humanity, of capacity for good and evil. In their view, the Africans are just a deterministic mass of victims of colonialism, symbols of Western sin, with no moral agency of their own. The natives Bergner quotes will be as kryptonite to such readers.

The Ghanaian scholar George Ayittey, in his book _Africa in Chaos_, deplored the vampiric kleptocracies that took hold in so many African countries after the end of colonialism. He proposed trying to reconstitute some of the pre-colonial tribal structures that had allowed for relatively peaceful conflict management. But how could this approach work in Sierra Leone, which was not only as artificial an entity as most other sub-Saharan countries but also an experimental one, like Liberia?

What could the solution be? No answers here. This is an impression of this woeful land, not a proposal for remedies. One can only hope that, with the presence of the British and more competent UN troops, the wounds will begin to heal. Everyone who only knows Sierra Leone from the terse wire reports filed under "In Other News" should read this book.

a beautifully-written account of a country.......2003-12-11

Daniel Bergner's book is a clear-sighted view of a country and its people. He has got to know the people there, and lets them tell their own stories in his book, from Michael the medical student with the cure for HIV; to Lamin active in rebuilding his country despite - and because of - his amputation during the war; to Western soldiers, aid workers and missionaries who have entered the country.

I think the book is uplifting: the people Bergner meets love their country and the descriptions of them and their country are written by a mesmerising writer. He may say things we (and him) do not always want to hear about Western intervention and the hangover of colonialism (which he never supports, contrary to other reivews: he just doesn't rubbish it without thought) but that makes them even more important to read.

This is a book which shocks, moves, uplifts and enthralls, and it has helped make Sierra Leone a country of individuals for me, rather than a UN statistic, which is why I love the book.

Great Book........2003-11-27

I applaud Bergner for writing about things as they actually were in Sierra Leone not so long ago (and currently ARE in surrounding countries), and not how those with some other agenda would have the reader believe that they are. An earlier reviewer encouraged would-be purchasers of the book to do a Google search on Sierra Leone instead of making this purchase. (Not a bad idea. At least the first part)..... I would also encourage would-be purchasers to first do a Google search--try "muti murders" for starters-- and only then buy the book, steeled for the read ahead and cognizant that the world Bergner so skillfully evokes is neither fabrication nor exaggeration. I give the book FIVE STARS, and recommend it to anyone unafraid to explore some hard truths about "modern" Africa.

author embraces his racism.......2003-11-20

The author is enthralled with his misconception that the locals view white men as dieties; he is also thrilled to ride in a heliocopter gunship next to a white racist mercenary, even while believing that the mercenary has fired weapons indiscriminatingly into crowds of blacks, "because of the sense of power...". The author views such characters as morally complex. Obviously, the author is a young, impressionable, ammoral whiteboy. And, unfortunately, the world is full of them. Too bad he doesn't seek the psychiatric help he so desperately needs.

In the Land of Magic Soldiers: a Story of White and Black in West Africa

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In the Land of Magic Soldiers: a Story of White and Black in West Africa
Daniel Bergner
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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ASIN: B000OWNWIQ

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When President Nixon signed the legislation authorizing the establishment of Voyageurs National Park on January 8, 1971, almost eighty years had passed since Minnesota's government initially petitioned to create a national park in the northern portion of the state.

Voyageurs National Park chronicles the complex legal and political campaign to found Minnesota's only national park. Witzig's thoroughly documented and referenced research allows him to offer a detailed view of the unanticipated disappointments and defining moments of achievement that accompanied this complicated legislative battle. Concentrating on the period from 1962 to 1975, Witzig identifies and explains the central issues surrounding the campaign including land acquisition policy, local concerns and opposition to the park, interagency conflict over inclusion of U.S. forest lands, antifederal attitudes in northeastern Minnesota, and the overstated case for the economic benefits a national park would bring. Witzig covers of the dispute over the inclusion of Crane Lake in the park and focuses on the many individuals and groups who were instrumental in the establishment of Voyageurs National Park, such as Governor Elmer L. Andersen, John A. Blatnik, Sigurd F. Olson, and Rita Shemesh.

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