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Louis XVI
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Louis XVI was at the center of the French Revolution, one of the major turning points in world history, but he remains relatively little known, often portrayed only as the weak, lazy, and treasonous king dominated by Marie-Antoinette. This new investigation by John Hardman, a leading expert on the French Revolution, challenges this stereotype. Drawing on new evidence from Louis XVI's letters and from a large body of new research, Hardman provides the first detailed reconstruction of the king's political thought and sheds new light on the king's character and personality. Ideal for students and scholars of modern history, Louis XVI is an important reconsideration of key aspect of the French and a lively introduction to this willfully enigmatic man.
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well balanced, interesting, clever.......2007-01-02
Hardman manages what few people have done about Louis XVI: take a balanced view, and focus on him rather than Marie Antoinette. In this book, he draws on the enormous literature on the subject to shed light on the king from many directions, creating a balanced picture, not too rosy, not too bleak. He builds a very complex picture, addressing various stages in the king's life, showing how his behavior changed. The book also has the advantage of drawing on newly available material, especially the letters of Louis with his minister of foreign affairs, Vergenne, to give Louis a voice, and pay attention to what this king of few words actually said.
The book is well written, balanced, clever. I strongly recommend it.
The Real Louis XVI is depicted in this book. .......2006-06-11
I love this book. Mr. Hardman depicts Louis XVI, the commonly misunderstood King of France, in a way that actually shows Louis as a real person, instead of a lazy old king who treated his people unkindly. I am a big fan of Louis XVI, and when I got this book, I was sure that I was going to love it. If you buy this book, open the first page, and you will love it. Louis XVI: The Silent King, does not show Louis in the more commonly picture of him as a lazy old king bossing everyone around. This book shows the image of a king young king, who tried his best to treat the French people well, but was overshadowed by several prime ministers and a duke. This book is pictureless, but you can imagine pictures in your head as I did.
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When deciding which athletes to profile, our editors take into account not only a player's statistics, but also his character. SPI takes care to select athletes who are known to be community minded and can serve as role models.
The biographical material on each athlete covers him from his earliest days to the present.
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Seeing the Bigger Picture: Understanding Politics Through Film & Television (Politics, Media & Popular Culture, V. 9.)
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Film and visual images are major components of modern society that can add to our understanding and appreciation of the political process in contemporary America. From silent films to twenty-first century blockbusters, from Bugs Bunny to The Simpsons and Star Trek, movies and television provide windows into political history and inform our perception of politics and political institutions. Seeing the Bigger Picture examines ways film and television can be used to foster a deeper understanding of the political dynamics that shape our world. Discussing both commercial films and documentaries from the United States and abroad, this book illustrates the wide-ranging relationships between film and politics. It offers suggestions on how to use film to perceive the dynamics of ideology, the American presidency, civil rights and social justice, campaigns and elections, war, peace, terrorism, and other contemporary debates. Employing film as much more than pure entertainment, this book reveals how movies and television can be invaluable and exciting tools to explain political concepts and to demonstrate the relevance of politics in our daily lives.
This is an excellent comprehensive text for students in film and politics courses and a creative resource for survey courses in political science, American government, and international relations.
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A must read!.......2005-05-17
Considering there was only one short review on this excellent book, I thought it would be helpful to give a better description. Upwards of 200 films are discussed, with much less focus on television. About five episodes of the Simpsons is covered, which the authors feel to be a good place to find social and political commentary. About half of the book is a summary of films and the others half is a mixture of how the films reflect the thoughts and politics of the time. One of the things that I truely enjoyed was that the book was neutral on politics, which is very rare when reading on the topic. The first few chapters cover early films that support or reject ideologies such as capitalism, communism, and fascism. The section on Red Scare films was quite interesting. Next the presidency is considered. In general the authors note that the president was nearly always presented as a hero in films before the 90's, after which there were several films that portrayed him as a villian. Could the end of the cold war be an explanation? Civil Rights, Social injustice, election and campaign films are next to be covered. War is another topic that is taken from all perspectives. Films that promoted war efforts and those that see it as destructive are give equal evaluation. A must read for anyone interested in the interplay of Hollywood, politics and culture.
The Bible, Origin of the Species, and now this book.......2004-04-08
A truly great work of amazing scope and impact. I will never forget what I've experienced in these pages.
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D&D for sci fi.......2006-11-19
More or less D&D for sci fi junkies, a decent system but very hard to find modules for these days.
TSR diversifies from D&D.......2006-02-17
Star Frontiers, when it was introduced by TSR in 1982, was a conscious break from the AD&D standard. The rules were entirely different (percentile-based), and the presentation was good. Unfortunately, it didn't garner sufficient popularity in the gaming community at the time of release, and was discontinued by the mid-Eighties. This is the Basic Set, with two rule books, an introductory module, SF0 - Crash on Volturnus, poster map, and counters. A later printing (1983) of the boxed set was labeled "Alpha Dawn." and printed in the same format as the Knight Hawks starship combat set.
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Excellent Book.......2004-02-08
I liked this book because it got straight to the point. He provides a through plan for your marketing plan. It interrelates all the departments that are affected by what marketing is doing. Ultimately, if you were going to present this plan to C-level management you would get their support. It shows that Marketing has worked with other departments to make a plan that the whole company can buy into.
I highly recommend it to someone that knows marketing but needs guidelines for putting together an effective plan.
Basic and Comprehensive.......2002-03-05
Here in a single volume is an abundance of basic information and sound counsel which will be especially helpful to those involved in business development for small-to-midsize organizations. (I use the word "organizations" because non-profits as well as for-profits obviously need to increase revenue while strengthening relations with various constituencies.) Don't expect to find any cutting-edge thinking here. Because the material is basic, however, don't think that Luther has little of value to offer to marketing, sales, and other customer service professionals with many years of experience. He organizes the material within five Parts:
The Role of Marketing Within a Business
Decisions to Be Made Before Developing Your Marketing Plan
Developing Your Brand Personality
Developing Your Marketing Plan
Feedback: Using Controls and Market Research to Complete the Loop
Luther then provides three excellent appendices: A Marketing Plan Outline, Thirty-Eight Market Characteristics, and Explanation of the What-If Sales Model. I highly recommend this book to owners/managers of chain franchises (e.g. dry cleaners, quick-print shops, and even fast food restaurants) as well as to independent insurance agents, sole practicioner attorneys, and others selling goods or services who generally neglect business development among their clientele within their local community. Presumably Luther understands that much of his material will not be directly relevant to a given reader. To his credit, he provides more material than most readers need. It remains for each reader to determine which ideas and initiatives are most appropriate. I think all readers will benefit from the disciplined thinking which Luther advocates throughout the planning, implementation, evaluation, and modification process. Those who wish to explore additional resources are urged to check out Theodore Levitt's The Marketing Imagination (a "classic"), Al Ries and Jack Trout's Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind (another" classic"), Neil Rackham's SPIN Selling (another "classic", especially for those selling big ticket items), Jacques Werth's High Probability Selling: Re-Invents the Selling Process, Dan Seidman's The Death of 20th Century Selling: 50 Hilarious Sales Blunders and How You Can Profit from Them, and Carl Sewell's Customers for Life: How to Turn That One-Time Buyer into a Lifetime Customer...
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The Dramatic Story of America's Founding Mother
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unenthused.......2007-07-15
I'm mystified by the rave reviews this book has received. Hutchinson is indeed a fascinating figure, but LaPlante's oddly-arranged book obscures more than it illuminates. LaPlante apparently wants to present Hutchinson not as a zealous religious dissident, but as some sort of proto-feminist or crypto-liberal. Although LaPlante acknowledges at several points that Hutchinson exhibited as much moral certitude as her prosecutors -- she believed, for example, that she could personally identify those chosen for salvation by God -- the majority of the book either downplays the significance of theological dispute in favor of gender politics (John Winthrop was primarily motivated by a desire to keep women in their place, etc.), or twists itself into knots trying to recast arch-Calvinist Antinomianism as a progressive movement. Incredibly, there is no serious discussion of theology until 50 pages into the book.
Gender is naturally of huge importance to this story -- we are, after all, talking about a woman in seventeenth century Boston who brazenly challenged the Cambridge-educated male establishment. But the reason for Hutchinson's banishment -- like that of the more influential and sophisticated Roger Williams a few years earlier -- was theological, and the faith of Hutchinson and her slippery mentor John Cotton (who was, after all, the grandfather of Cotton Mather) was no more rational and no less fanatical than that of Winthrop, whose tendency to seek conciliation marks him as a relatively moderate fellow by Puritan standards. Unlike Williams, whose radical separatism led him to advocate religious freedom, Hutchinson was primarily concerned not with political liberty but with denouncing those who she believed to be under a "covenant of works" (a category that included all the ministers in Massachusetts except for Cotton and her brother-in-law, John Wheelwright).
LaPlante is not an expert on Puritan New England, which becomes clear when she attempts to deal with theology. To give one example, she employs the word "orthodox" as a general term of abuse -- using it at one point to describe the Puritans' Anglican opponents in England, and at other points to describe the Puritan leadership in Boston. Like Howard Zinn (who blurbs the book), she sympathizes with the underdog to the point where underdog status alone appears as a sign of righteousness. In fact, Hutchinson's views were not (at least from a modern secular standpoint) any more enlightened than those of her enemies; Hutchinson was ahead of her time only in her belief that women are as able to interpret scripture as men, and in her relatively humane views regarding Native Americans (which she shared with Williams and Samuel Sewall, among others).
Of course, historical figures should not be chastised for every transgression against contemporary sensibilities. But as someone with no dog in the fight between between different varieties of seventeenth century English Protestantism, I was irritated by LaPlante's verbal gymnastics on behalf of her ancestor -- especially after she declares in the intro that her work will avoid the "exaltation" found elsewhere! While we get a sense of Hutchinson's admirable qualities, including her sparkling intelligence and stubborn bravery, criticism is limited to the occasional throw-away sentence, and there is little in the way of psychological analysis. LaPlante's Hutchinson is opaque and two-dimensional -- a symbol rather than a human being. (I realize this critique may be somewhat unfair, given the limited range of primary source materials available.) LaPlante is not one of those historians who dismisses all historical figures as benighted and morally backwards, but she makes an equally serious mistake in attempting to transform a proud, complex, and extraordinarily devout woman into a fairly straightforward, easy-to-digest hero for contemporary readers.
Three final points, two negative and one positive: (1) LaPlante has a bad habit of substituting her own language for that of the protagonists, leading to some confusion about who is saying what. Quotes end abruptly, to be replaced by LaPlante's paraphrasing, and I suspected at several points that her characterization was more than charitable to Hutchinson (facilitating her transformation into a Puritan version of Susan B. Anthony) and less than charitable to her opponents. The book is at its best when LaPlante isn't speaking at all, since her commentary adds little to the drama. (2) I hinted at this above, but I'll make it more explicit: Although LaPlante does voice some minor criticisms of Hutchinson, the general tenor of the book is hagiographic. Many of the quotes that LaPlante culls from other histories of the era seem to have been included only because they are highly complimentary of Hutchinson. LaPlante defends her subject in an almost lawerly fashion, informing us, for example, that "Harvard University" credits Hutchinson with its founding (actually, only one Harvard professor), and that Hutchinson founded Rhode Island (not entirely true, since Roger Williams had settled Providence a year earlier). These are minor details, but combined with the suspicious paraphrasing, they undermined my trust in the author. An honest defense of Hutchinson would have been fine, but this book attempts to lionize its subject using sleight of hand. (3) Despite all its flaws, this is a well-researched book, and I learned some things that I had not found in other books on this period. Particularly interesting were LaPlante's discussions of Lincolnshire and Boston, England.
For better books on pre-Revolutionary New England, I suggest Philbrick's Mayflower, Morgan's Puritan Dilemma (on Winthrop), Gaustad's Roger Williams, and Richard Francis' wonderful book on the admirable Samuel Sewall (another LaPlante ancestor on whom she has apparently written ... yikes). American Jezebel isn't worthless, but it would be unfortunate if anyone picked up their whole education on the Puritans here -- as many of the other Amazon reviewers seem to have done.
Anne comes off better than her suroundings.......2007-06-26
The genealogy given in the appendix of this book shows the author thirteen generations directly removed from the book's subject, Anne Marbury Hutchinson. Anne's descendants are also said to include Franklin Delano Roosevelt and George Walker Bush. Other books about Hutchinson have been written, but this one is probably the most thoroughly researched.
Eve LaPlante says she is a journalist; it appears that she has published a couple dozen freelance pieces as well as three other books. She also says that this is a non-fiction book. Although there is quite an extensive bibliography, there are no citations within the text, and one wonders how she knows so precisely that the sky was clear at sunrise on November 8, 1637 (p. 70), to pick an instance of literary embellishment at random.
One expects a journalist to understand the difference between an institutional view and something said by a member of that institution. Thus, on page xxi, she says, "According to Harvard University, it is she rather than John Harvard who 'should be credited with the founding of Harvard College.'" She puts things better into context on pages 133f. Harvard Professor Peter Gomes calls Hutchinson the "midwife" to the College, and explains why this is appropriate. (In addition to this unintended and symbolic role, Hutchinson was a midwife in her "normal" life.) Prof. Gomes teaches the history of Harvard and is probably more qualified than any other to offer such an opinion, but to say that "Harvard University" holds this view (indeed, any view) is no more accurate than to say that the New York Times does simply because Ms. LaPlante has published there. And while both Anne Hutchinson, indirectly, and John Harvard, more directly, played important roles in the establishment of the College between 1636 and 1638, the politics are far too complicated to ascribe the title "founder" to any one person.
The book is somewhat uneven; the story of Anne's trials is quite drawn out and interspersed with many flashbacks, while the commentary once she has died seems to be as rapid a recitation of whatever notes and thoughts were left over as can be stitched together. It is evident where the author's heart is.
Because of these mechanical issues, I cannot give the book a full five stars. As a period piece on Massachusetts in the 1630s, it leaves a bit to be desired. But as source material on her subject with enough documentation to be able to read between the lines why she believes what she writes, it is unlikely that any other author will have the same passion for the subject, the wherewithal to carry out the research, and (mostly) the ability to pull off a moving story.
The Hutchinson factor.......2007-01-16
It is marvelous to read details about the nation's first feminist,Anne Hutchinson, a woman who ought to make more appearances in classrooms. LaPlante's writing keeps the story moving, although it was disconcerting at the beginning of the book to have her give 1637 as the date when Harvard was founded. The year was 1636, which may change her reference to Hutchinson in that connection. That's minor, however, compared to bringing to life a woman who stood up to the austere and determined men of Boston, founded a place in Rhode Island and then had her life ironically ended in a massacre by Indians when she had been a champion of at least some Native American rights. Few Americans who travel the Hutchinson River Parkway on a daily basis probably know where its name came from, but perhaps LaPlante's book will widen that awareness. Like Abigail Adams, Hutchinson was a powerful woman at a time when women were not supposed to have any power. This book is particularly interesting to me because, like LaPlante, I'm a Hutchinson descendant.
Pleasantly surprised..........2005-10-19
I started this book a bit unenthused (required class reading) - after all, how could a whole book be dedicated to one Puritan woman in the 1600's manage to keep the attention of a twenty-first century action junky such as myself?
Once I turned the first few pages, I couldn't put the book down. An excellent read by an author who has a gift for conveying history in an exciting and fluid manner.
One word of caution though - if you don't like to history or religion, then you should consider passing this one by.
Excellent research, powerful telling of an American heroine.......2005-09-29
LaPlante does a wonderful job of bringing her ancestor to life through the court transcripts, but also by bringing to life the world that she lived in. She gives thorough biographies of not just Anne, but her father and her accusers. By giving the reader an understanding of all the players in this drama, Anne's tale is even more powerful. Toward the end of her hearing, you almost want to put your hand over Anne's mouth to stop her lambast of her judges, but at the same time you can't help admiring her courage. The solidity of the early pages dwindles off toward the end, through no fault of LaPlante, because of the paucity of records regarding Anne's last years, we can only get a sketchy outline of her exile. That outline feels like even less because of the fully fleshed out Anne of early in the book.
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Early in the Civil War, prisons were adequate to hold the numbers of prisoners. As the war continued and the number of prisoners increased, so did the number of facilities. Some 150 locations were utilized to hold soldiers captured on the battlefield as well as political prisoners suspected of disloyalty. Facilities can be classified in six categories: 1) existing jails or prisons, 2) coastal fortifications, 3) converted commercial buildings, 4) barracks enclosed by a high fence, 5) cloisters of tents enclosed by a high fence and 6) barren stockades.
Many prisoners, both Confederate and Federal, came to feel that a quick death from a bullet would have been better than slowly starving to death in a cold, crowded, filthy prison. The hope of freedom was sometimes the only thing that kept a prisoner alive, and if that prisoner wanted to see his home once more, he tried every way possible to escape.
This work is divided into two sections—the Federal prisons and the Confederate prisons. The facilities have been organized alphabetically for easy reference. Facts about each prison include when it was established, type of facility, location, number and kind of prisoners held, known escapes, and other available data. An appendix lists the monthly Federal prison population from July 1862 through late 1865 and the escapes reported each month.
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Well done work on Civil War Prisons.......2005-06-30
At the onset of the Civil War there was little need for large camps or stockades to hold prisoners of war. Converted granaries, warehouses and forts filled the need for the holding of Confederate and Union soldiers. As the war progressed so did the need for larger holding facilities, thus large scale prisons were born out of necessity. The camps, laid out and designed to hold a specific amount of men were soon filled to capacity and then overloaded with men, so much so that the average man would often relish the quick death by bullet to the long drawn out starvation of camp life. Taxed beyond comprehension these men endured pain and suffering from malnourishment, infestations of all sorts of vermin, extremes in weather and disgusting sanitary conditions that caused many a soldier to succumb from falling into a privy and being to weak to pull himself out. He would drown in his and others filth.
Out of desperation men would barter their very lives for a possible way to end their misery. They would sell clothing for food only to die from the elements, or be attacked by marauding inmates bent on trying to better their own horrible existence in "hell". Death became like a friend to many a soldier, offering him an easy way out of the pain and suffering. Heavy labor, starvation, endless beatings, and putrid thirst quenching water became a way of life, a life not worth living, and quick to escape to the tranquility and peacefulness of death was sought after by many. A few fell back on their trade and crafted jewelry out of animal bones or rocks, and sold them outside the walls of confinement.
This work sheds even more light into the misery and complexity of housing prisoners and does so quite well. The author choose 27 locations form the North and South and gives the reader excellent detail into the Locations when they were established, specifics type of prison along with type of prisoners, capacities, known escapes and nicknames. Each facility is arranged alphabetically to aid in referencing the material. Since the Confederate prison records were sketchy at best only the Federal prison population and escapes were reported from July 1862 through 1865. This is documented in the appendix right before the chapter notes at the end of the book. It covers a 41 month period of captivity.
There was extensive research put into this work and it shows not only in the writing but in the Chapter Notes. Official correspondence from camp commanders is used quite heavily, as well as the Official Records. The Notes section alone will give the reader a wonderful avenue in which to do further research if they are interested in a particular facility.
This work gives the reader keen insight into what the common soldier faced when placed within the prison walls and how he battled the elements, vermin and his friends to live another day. The struggle to survive is mirrored with a monumental effort to escape and the details relating to several escapes along with the ideas hatched in the tormented soldiers minds is spelled out with in this book. The extremes that they would go to just to escape show just how bad life was within the walls of confinement. Topped off by local inhabitants, local terrain and how poorly some of the prison officials treated the prisoners, one truly sees why the possibility of escape kept many a man alive.
True, some prisons were worse than others, and to that point, this book gives an accurate account of how men faired from prison to prison. It was an enjoyable book to read and one filled with first hand information and primary source material. I'd highly recommend this work for anyone interested in prisons and the inevitable escape.
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For decades, policies pursued by the U.S. and other industrialized nations towards the developing world have has been based on a dirty little secret among policy experts: democracy and development don't mix. Turning this long-held view on its head, The Democracy Advantage makes a bold case that they do.
In this timely, penetrating analysis, the authors of this path breaking book dismantle the conventional wisdom that democratic reforms are destabilizing and that the U.S. must first promote development - often relying on authoritarian regimes - in order to create a middle class that will support democracy.
Reviewing 40 years of hard, empirical data, from China and India to Chile and Iraq, the authors show that poor democracies beat poor autocracies in every economic measure. In addition, the authors offer dramatic evidence that democracies are less likely to fight each other and that terrorists more often find safe haven in authoritarian countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan.
Wide-ranging and grounded in solid research, The Democratic Advantage outlines a new vision of foreign policy that combines the best of America's democratic and economic values.
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Convincing Argument.......2005-07-22
Conventional thinking is that democracy stunts development and that the U.S. must first work towards development even if it means propping up tyrants. This book impressively argues against this assertion using empirical data. The book makes an effective argument.
Michael Signer, a Democratic insider, writes on his blog DemocracyArsenal.org that this theme harks back to Woodrow Wilson. Progressives today are not at the forefront of this issue and must take it back from the neocons.
An interesting idea from an interesting book.
What an 11 Bravo CIB holder thinks about this book. .......2005-06-05
I saw the authors on Book TV when the book first came out. They were so non-dogmatic and sensible I just had to read their book. It is everything good that the professional reviews mention. Terrorism is so complex and so difficult to control. But it is a fact that terrorists and war generally do not come from democracies so spreading democracy could be our best weapon against terrorism. The book provides empirical data to make the point that under all circumstances we should leverage everything we have to help developing countries on the path to democracy. And they are not talking about militarism. They understand practical matters but they have a better way. It is all about coordination of efforts involving institutions (IMF, World Bank, IFI's like the EBRD) and countries with one goal, democracy for the world. These guys know what they are talking about and how to implement change and development without shock and awe.
This is not some fun book to read. It is a combination of academic and practical thinking. But honestly it seems to hold the keys to the kingdom. They have a big picture answer.
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Title: Despots or democrats?(The Democracy Advantage How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace )(Book Review)
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- A Good Guide to Habitat Restoration, with caveats...
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A Good Guide to Habitat Restoration, with caveats..........2001-04-21
If somewhat superficial in its discussion of the ecological basis for restoration, and how environmental interactions can and do interact with restoration efforts in unpredictable ways, still this guide is a good addition to the Habitat Restorer's (Restorationists?) toolkit.
This book will be useful to you if you are a novice embarking on a new restoration project, or if you have some experience with restoration, but have not worked in a position of leadership.
Run, though, and do not walk, as you seek to accompany this guide with detailed ecological knowledge about your area from researchers and restorers at work there. No book can comprehensively offer advice about where you live, in your home place. Only you, and people like yourself, can acquire that sort of expertise.
Another useful book for the restorer's library--more explanatory as to right attitude rather than technique--is Gary Snyder's _The Real Work_.
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