Emperor Francis Joseph, King of the Hungarians

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This book examines the evolution of relations between the Habsburg ruler of Hungary and his subjects from the crushing of the Hungarian Revolution of 1849 to the Compromise of 1867 and on to World War I. The book explains the evolution of Francis Joseph's attitude toward the Hungarians whose public adulation of their king camouflaged a historical condition of enmity that never disappeared.

Gero, Andras. Emperor Francis Joseph, King of the Hungarians.(Tisztikar is kozeposztaly. Ferenc Jozsef magyar tisztjei)(Book Review) : An article from: Austrian History Yearbook

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Gero, Andras. Emperor Francis Joseph, King of the Hungarians.(Tisztikar is kozeposztaly. Ferenc Jozsef magyar tisztjei)(Book Review) : An article from: Austrian History Yearbook
Alice Freifeld
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

Austria | Europe | History | Subjects | Books

Hungary | Europe | History | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B000BF03KQ
Release Date: 2005-09-13

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A tribute to his legacy as a golfer and as a human being.......2001-02-17

Payne Stewart was a gifted professional golfer, a loving father, devoted husband, loyal friend, and a man of faith. On October 25, 1999, a plane on its way to Texas and carrying five people, crashed in a pasture in a remote area of South Dakota. The pilot and all of the passengers, including Payne Stewart, died. When he died, Stewart was enjoying his greatest year as a professional golfer as current defender of the U.S. Open, a member of the Ryder Cup Championship team, and the winner of the AT&T Celebrity Pro-Am in Pebble Beach. His silky golf swing and his knickers with a tam-o-shanter perched upon his head were all familiar trademarks of his colorful golfing persona. I Remember Payne Stewart is a tribute to his legacy as a golfer and as a human being through the comments, memories and anecdotes offered by relatives, college buddies, fellow golfers, sports reporters, and more. I Remember Payne Stewart is a striking and memorable collection of personal memories by those who knew him best and a "must read" for all Stewart fans who followed his golf course accomplishments with great enthusiasm for the man and the game.

Let down.......2000-06-06

Very superficial. Not nearly the depth of the authorized biography.

Outstanding treatment of Stewart.......2000-05-23

Fantastic treatment of this golf icon. And so timely. Couldn't recommend it more highly.

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The Ancient Egyptians played it. The Romans played it. And today it still thrives, with only the most cutthroat players coming out on top. Bruce Becker says of backgammon, “Luck is for losers!” and his guide brings readers his no-holds-barred and take-no-prisoners approach to this highly-competitive game. He discusses the science of chance, basics for beginners, probabilities and odds, and what he calls “Battle Strategy: The Basic Approach to War.” Helpful diagrams of backgammon boards represent a variety of game situations, and there is also an appendix covering the rules of backgammon and their variants in play. It’s the perfect gift for any dedicated player.

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Backgammon for Blood

Manufacturer: Avon Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0380487934

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Good advice, great attitude
Very fun book
Great book with which to begin
I like to enjoy cheese danish on dew filled mornings
Never heard of Bruce Becker?

Backgammon for Blood
Bruce Becker
Manufacturer: Avon Books (Mm)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0380003848

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Good advice, great attitude.......2005-09-25

This book was the first I ever bought on backgammon, back in the mid-70s. It is by no means the most complete out there, but what it is missing in serious analysis and problem solving it comes close to making up in enthusiasm, and aggressive, in your face attitude.

Just for starters, the cover of edition I have has a photo on the cover of a man contemplating the board with a look of sly cunning and confidence, and in his left hand is, yes, a smoking cigarette! Good luck getting that on a book cover in 2005.

Add to that Becker's comments on general playing attitude, which comes across as playing to the crowd - and the women in the crowd - every bit as much as intimidation of the enemy...er, I mean opponent...and you get the general idea. It's all written with verve and style and some panache, and does not come across quite as arrogantly as I may be implying.

Becker's backgammon advice is fine if one takes it as a starting off point. He introduces the rules of the game, talks a little general strategy - pretty light stuff - and then plunges into openings. Well, some of the openings will be obvious, but some of his suggestions will be somewhat aggressive, maybe even risky. They do support his declared style of play. His comments on the midgame are sketchy - this is not a book of exercises or studies - and while his material on bearing off is good analysis, there is better out there. His best chapter is on the doubling cube, a medieval weapon of torture in his hands.

In general it's a good book to get a sense of strategy and tactics for a novice. It was my only book until I started playing for money with a regular group of players locally, as well as almost daily online. I got my butt kicked, and went back to other sources to learn more. I don't get it kicked quite so often anymore. So once a player is at a certain level, it's time to move on to other, deeper books on the subject. But until then, it's a great primer, and a fun bedside read.

Very fun book.......2004-10-28

This is funny. I haven't seen nor heard anything about this book in about 20 years. I don't even remember the gist of its teaching, but I remember vividly the enthusiasm it gave me for backgammon.

This book made backgammon fun. To sit down with a friend and play backgammon just for fun.....isn't really that fun. He got to the heart of what makes games of any sort exciting, namely playing for money (or in a tournament). With the doubling cube, backgammon has the excitement of poker.

Backgammon is a game of strategy that makes use of probabilities, no question about it, however, many backgammon experts try desperately to make backgammon a mere exercise in math with their endless calculations and probabilities. However, played correctly, backgammon is a game of strategy, courage, excitement and brinksmanship.

This book could be entitled Backgammon for Fun.

Great book with which to begin.......2003-12-01

Ray's review is excellent. This is a book that will raise a player's standing from novice to accomplished novice, but it will not, by itself, raise a player above the novice level.

This book was written before personal computers, before FIBS, before Snowie, and before GNUbg so it lacks the depth that is available 20+ years later.

But it is an excellent book to give a young child who wants to
learn backgammon.

I like to enjoy cheese danish on dew filled mornings.......2003-09-19

I bot this book around 1980, when I was in high school. It definately excited me with the idea of making money by using my inteeligence (I am unsure of the spelling of that word). I made alot of money (alot as defined by a 17 yr old - the amount of 181 dollars sticks in my head) from people who were recreational players (aka cluless)

In other words, this book is excellent if you wanna be a big fish in a small pond. And since most recreational backgammon players are probably best categorized as swimming in the small backgammon pond of life, this book will serve you well, making you better than them.

But just as being the best player in your Thursday night kitchen table poker game sets you up to get slaughtered the first time you walk into a Vegas casino and sit at the no limit Hold 'em table, I think this book will put you in that position.

You will think you are better than you are, and you will point to your great track record as proof (see the reviewer who won 17 straight from his buddy). But you will not realize that this track record was born out of the placid saftey of a backgammon "small pond". Unfortunatley, however, when you leave the calm waters of the pond, and hit the open waters of the deep blue, you will suddenly and unexpectedly find yourself reeling as you are tossed about by mother natures relentless and overwhelming power. Waves begin to crash over you, each one pushing you further under. You struggle to get to the life giving air. But the surface is a cold mistress for as you break clear of the brine and gasp for air, you find that wind is also your enemy, for the wind has so laden the air with mist, that you begin to take in more water while above the surface than while under. But there is no margin for error, for you are immediatly toppled by a rouge wave before you can attempt another breath.

As you try to right yourself, you begin to meet with some success, but only to realize that mother nature is more than just powerful, she is wiley, for she has filled has filled this world with more than just forces, she has filled it with creatures that can bring you to your doom as readily as the wind and waves. As this realization hits you, the white triangles disappear beneath your flesh and you are pulled from the surface not knowing if you will be eaten alive, or be mercifully drowned, before become the tasty sustinance of one that is greater than you...

in much the same way that I enjoy the tasty sustinance of a delectable cheese danish while standing in a dew covered field on a glorious and crisp fall morning.

Ahhh Cant you see how wonderfully enjoyable Backgammon is?

Ray

PS the astute review reader may have noticed that the style of the review above, as well as the text of the review was designed to make a commentary on the book "Backgammon for Blood".

Ya know Ray may be a genius, cuz I have never seen nor heard of a reviewer who used both form and content to provided feedback. In doing so, the review experience of both the reviewer and reviewee is heightend. It also provdides a more comprehensive understanding of the material reviewed, and since that greater understanding is delivered in the same amount of words, it is a more efficient form of communication. Admittedly the efficiency is lost if the efficiency itself must be explained, but that is a one time cost. Naturally, this assumes a repeat audience - which may be the assumption the brings sinks the ship of the newly named "Mutli-faceted Self Referential Review").

However even if the assumption of a repeat audience were invalid thereby effectivley removing the efficieny gains, the bar has been raised. We can all read and write reviews in a way hertofore unknown. We are atanding at an excting and entice threshold and I challege you to step through, not with trepidation, but with vim!

Ahhh Backgammon reviews, they are indeed enjoyable

Ray's Editor

Never heard of Bruce Becker?.......2002-12-16

I hadn't, either. Now I know why. Becker is a good player, though not a great player. I seriously doubt that he has ever won a meaningful tournament. Basically, his book gives the impression that all games break down into "playing the odds." So, if you like memorizing the odds of a particular roll of the dice, and arranging your checkers according to statistical charts, this might be the book for you. However boring, what is more troublesome is that backgammon is not necessarily played that way; it is more complex than simply calculating odds. By following Becker's advice, the student adopts a very conservative philosophy, designed to protect you from being hit, and to increase your chances of hitting. While that seems commendable, it is no way to win backgammon games over the long haul.

I bought the book with high expectations. Indeed, the title piqued my curiosity. What I found, though, was a very dry book with few diagrams after the section on opening moves. Furthermore, there was very little strategy mentioned other than "playing the odds." To Becker's credit, there is a good section on bearing off that I would recommend to anybody.
All in all, I refer the people searching for opponent's blood to Robertie's or Woolsey's works.

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Backgammon for Blood
Bruce Becker
Manufacturer: Avon
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OLTD08

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Back-Gammon for Blood

Manufacturer: Avon
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0380411377

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Backgammon for Blood
Bruce Becker
Manufacturer: Avon
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K9ZUJ2

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Backgammon for Blood
Bruce Becker
Manufacturer: Morrow/Avon
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MY8P4W

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Backgammon for Blood

Manufacturer: Avon
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000H42I7M

Book Description

Mindshift paints the big picture for your employees on the revolution that's underway in how work gets done. Dr. Pritchett explains the history of work...how yesterday created today...and what's coming tomorrow! It also offers other key coaching points on succeeding in today's high velocity business world by detailing 5 new work roles key to career success, and rethinking roles in the changing world of work.

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Mammon is our God.......2003-05-03

Here's a man who believes that humans are just little pawns in the economy, and that, essentially, Mammon is God. And wouldn't it be appropriate for such a man to quote Charles Darwin in building his little argument that all of us are here merely as minions to the economic forces? So he does, as follows: "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change" (page 60).

This Price Pritchett fella spends his writing time convincing us that our essence is found in what we contribute to the economy, and then his last sentence, the very last in this little book, reads as follows: "And let's enjoy the ride."

But it can't be both ways. If we endeavor to really enjoy ourselves, we may conflict with the purposes of the economy. If we really dedicate ourselves to the economy, we may not particularly enjoy it. Price Pritchett is talking out of two sides of his mouth. And why shouldn't he? Mammon is is his God, and Mammon has served him well. He's trying to convince the rest of us that we should go along with Mammon's program. I prefer the real God, myself: I don't know what or who that is, but I know what it ain't, and it ain't Mammon.

This little pamphlet does have some interesting statistics. Thus it merits a two. Diximus.

Important advice for management.......2000-04-18

Today's corporate managers will be in charge, at least once & probably many, many times during their tenure, of major changes in policy, strategy, & practice. Unfortunately, more often than not, these changes fail to accomplish some or all of their objectives. In this brief book, Pritchett explains why employees resist change and lays out several novel & effective methods to meet their resistance head on and win them over to the change effort (He also addresses the "troublesome few" who absolutely refuse to accept change, & how to best marginalize them and their attempts to stop the change). All employees will benefit from the lessons in "Resistance," but any manager in charge of a change effort **must** have this book to help him/her overcome the barriers standing in the way of the new & improved organization that will result from the change.

A blueprint for "the new economy".......2000-04-13

Pritchett puts forth a masterful thesis: When plants close, companies merge, & products go off the market, it's not "foreigners" or "the government" to blame. It's **us**. **We** as consumers are the ones driving the (incredibly quickly) changing market because **we**, as a group, are out for one thing -- the best deal. That's why today we have Federal Express and not the Pony Express, and AT&T focuses a lot more on the "Telephone" aspects of the business than the "Telegraph" aspects. "Minsdshift" explains how employees today can adopt a number of new & important ways of thinking to keep themselves and their companies "shifting" their thinking to continually offer the best deal -- the one and only way companies will get consumers to stay with them. Extremely important reading not just for "front-line" employees, but also for anyone involved with the positioning and/or managing how a business treats its existing and potential new markets.

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This is a no-holds-barred look at the hotel heiress, reality TV star, and rampant party girl. Known to tabloids as "Paris the Heiress," The twenty-three-year-old became famous at a young age for being a rich, spoiled socialite who never met a party-or a man-she didn't like. She developed a small career as a model and actress, but her real claim to fame is the racy sex tape she made with a former boyfriend, which was recently released and has made her career-and her notoriety-skyrocket.

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When will it end?.......2006-01-23

Doesn't the author have better things to write than this drivel? I don't even have to read it to know what a waste of time it is. I love books, and I'll read almost anything.
But this is so not worth my brain cells.
Why can't she stick to something she knows?
Like nothing?
To quote oh so infamous Dennis Leary: "...and she can't screw to save her life!"

Please, people of the world. Brain cells are important. When they die, they can't grow back. Spare yourself, and your brain cells. They're the best frienda you have. Comic books are better than this! If you don't like to read anything else, then pick up an Archie comic! For the love of God, Archie is better than Paris Hilton!

PARIS HILTON-THE NAKED TRUTH.......2005-09-03

IT WAS OK. I DID NOT LEARN ANYTHNG NEW AND I HAVE SEEN MOST OF THE PHOTOS ALREADY IN MAGAZINES.

good read!.......2005-06-03

I thought this was an interesting book.

People who like Paris Hilton obvisouly have low self esteem and look to her to validate themselves.

this book shows how she is but a pretty face with nothing else.

Heiress Paris.......2005-02-01

I had gotten this book from my library and it was in between good and horrible. I give it five stars because I thought it depicted Paris greatly, yet pounced on her sister Nicky the same way, when to me, Nicky has proven a lot more than Paris and in more appropriate ways. Paris just doesn't understand the world we live in and I think that's the problem. She's been raised oblivious to the real world and the fact that people actually have jobs and work for a living. And that some people actually are poor and can't even afford homes. I just think she needs a wake up call. Perhaps she should go to Africa and see how people are suffering and dying. Or the tsunami zone, which I bet she and her family wasn't donating a penny of their money towards. Maybe if she does something worthwhile I'll think of her differently, but that hasn't come about yet. So, to sum of this book, that's hot. And if you want to find a place that makes fun of her, check out Heiress Paris on Msn Groups, it rocks.

The only good thing about this book is the cover.......2005-01-16

This book was a sore disappointment. Not only is the text printed on cheap paperback paper (think Mills & Boon) but so are most of the pictures (in grainy black and white). I don't know why they skimped on the colours when half the fun of watching Paris and her little clique is all the candy colours. As for the writing itself, it soon becomes painfully clear that the writer never met his subject or anyone close to her. Instead he's taken a bunch of articles (mainly from ibid) and written a preachy/moralising/dull text full of quotes from unknown professors/psychiatrists. And since he doesn't know anything, a lot of chapters aren't even about Paris, but fillers. For example he devotes whole chapters describing New York schools/ japanese stars/ heirs/heiresses with tragic lives etc. But only manages to write 1 page about Nicole Richie. So if you're interested in Paris and her friends don't bother buying this book. US weekly/national enquirer makes for a better read.

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Originally laid down as one of six giant battle cruisers, the Saratoga survived the 1922 Washington Disarmament Treaty's cutting torch through her conversion to a new and seemingly benign type of vessel-the aircraft carrier. She reported for fduty off Long Beach, CA in 1927 and for the next twelve years trained the men who would eventually fight World War II. One of only three carriers on duty at the outset of World War II, Saratoga, at one point, was the sole American carrier available to Naval Aviation. She suffered two torpedo attacks and a horrifying kamikaze attack, and was reported sunk many times by the Japanese. Refitted as a night-attack carrier, then relegated to the role of training carrier, Saratoga survived the war only to be sacrificed in the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946. No carrier, or ship, played a greater role in developing the men and tactics that became the massive force that United States Naval Aviation., over 200 b/w photographs, 8 1/2" x 11"

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USS Saratoga is the best book for pictures and history........1999-04-28

This a great book in terms of pictures and the history of the USS Saratoga. It is about as complete a book on this ship that you will find. From the moment she was created to the day she was sunk in Bikini Atoll's lagoon by the US weapons tests, this book covers it all in GREAT detail.

The Uss Saratoga: Remembering One of America's Great Aircraft Carriers 1956-1994

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Terrific tribute to USS SARATOGA
Terrific tribute to USS SARATOGA

The Uss Saratoga: Remembering One of America's Great Aircraft Carriers 1956-1994
Jane Tanner
Manufacturer: Longstreet Pr
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 156352189X

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Terrific tribute to USS SARATOGA.......2002-06-07

Excellent photography and outstanding commentary from those who served aboard her (including an interview and picture of its first CO). Truly a refreshing walk down memory lane. Difficult to
obtain but most libraries can borrow it from another library that
currently owns it.

Terrific tribute to USS SARATOGA.......2002-06-07

Two Centuries Of Saratoga: USS Saratoga CV-60.

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Two Centuries Of Saratoga: USS Saratoga CV-60.
G.F. Editor Wilster
Manufacturer: Tiffany Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UJAN7G

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Uss Saratoga

Manufacturer: Turner Publishing Company (KY)
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1563118556

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USS SARATOGA
Jane Tanner
Manufacturer: Longstreet Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JPRWPC

Uss Saratoga CV-3: An Illustrated History of the Legendary Aircraft Carrier 1927 - 1946

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Uss Saratoga CV-3: An Illustrated History of the Legendary Aircraft Carrier 1927 - 1946
John Fry
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing, Limited
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000TZ4DR2

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Now brought up to date to cover the Reagan and Bush administrations, the second edition of this classic text plots the rise, fall and continuing evolution of the liberal tradition in America since the Depression. Focusing on ten key individuals, from Franklin Roosevelt to Martin Luther King, Jr. to Ronald Reagan, "The Roosevelt of the Right," Hamby employs lively biographical essays to illuminate the ideological bases of American liberalism and conservatism. An essential tool towards understanding for students of American history and politics.

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A Balanced Look at Recent American History.......2000-01-30

Liberalism and its challengers is a thorough and balanced look at recent American History. Dr. Hamby goes through many of the recent Presidencies giving an open minded and fair evaluation of recent American History. Not clouded by the misinformation of the revionist historians movement this book is very fair. A good and informative read.

A fair minded explaination.......1999-01-11

I found this book to be a fair minded explaination of how liberalism moved onto the center stage of American thinking in the '30s and still holds sway with a large but shrinking population in the '90s.

The use of biography shows the reader that there really is no vast left wing conspiracy out to turn the US into a nanny state. There are only individual people who have idea about how to solve problems. Sometimes those ideas are good, other times they are not so good.

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Liberalism and Its Challengers: From F.D.R. to Bush
Alonzo Hamby
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJVERA

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