In the House of Muhammad Ali: A Family Album, 1805-1952

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This remarkable memoir of a junior member of the former royal family constitutes a unique chronicle of life before 1952 among the members of Egypt's ruling class. It provides fascinating insights into the lives not only of the rulers themselves, from Muhammad Ali to King Fuad and King Farouk, but also of royal wives, cousins, aunts, uncles, and associated personalities.
In the House of Muhammad Ali is a personal memoir from the inside; it is thus an important document for future scholars. But the book will delight the general reader every bit as much as the historian. It is a charming and evocative account of a time and a social class that no longer exist, written in the author's inimitable style - a style that reads almost like a conversation: "She emanated a gentle quietude which was like a screen between one and the exterior world. A dim sort of luminosity seemed to surround her, as if she lived in a gray, limbo world of her own - also conveyed perhaps by the fact that she had very poor and limited eyesight."
Prince Hassan's gift for characterization is matched by an extraordinary eye for detail. His descriptions of houses, palaces, and gardens - many of them no longer in existence - are at the same time precise and evocative. The book thus also makes an important contribution to the history of Cairene urban geography.
But most valuable of all, perhaps, are the illustrations. Some seventy-five photographs, most of them never published before, have a poignancy that readily leads the viewer into the world they depict. The people in them are clearly defined, richly varied, and above all interesting. At least of equal value are the pictures of palaces, gardens, and riverfront that document aspects of Cairo that vanished long ago. The experience of reading this memoir is akin to discovering a lost generation.

Customer Reviews:

New Perspective.......2004-01-24

Published soon after Prince Hassan's death, this entertaining collection of personal memories and family reminisces gives shape to an often misunderstood and much maligned period of Egyptian history and its ruling family.

Told in a chatty, familiar - almost gossipy - style with plenty of black and white photographs, this work provides insight into a past of privilege that survives today in the memory of a select few. Suprisingly, little information is available about a royal familty that was once counted among the wealthiest in the world.

It is the trend in current Egyptian literature to shun recording anything remotely positive about the Muhammed Ali family. However, their accomplishments and failures did help to shape this ancient country that still struggles for its own identity today. It is an important - informal - look at a period in history through a different perspective.

A note to potential travelers to Egypt. With patience, one can still visit some of the royal palaces Prince Hassan mentions, although in a neglected state or converted into modern hotels.

Fresh Perspective.......2002-10-24

Published soon after Prince Hassan’s death, this entertaining collection of personal memories and family reminisces gives shape to an often misunderstood and much maligned period of Egyptian history and its ruling family.

Told in a chatty, familiar - almost gossipy - style with plenty of black and white photographs, this work provides insight into a past of privilege that survives today in the memory of a select few. Surprisingly little information is available about a royal family that was counted among the wealthiest in the world.

It is the trend for current Egyptian literature to shun recording anything remotely positive about the Muhammad Ali family. However, their accomplishments and failures did help to shape this ancient country that still struggles for its own identity today. It is an important look at a period in history through a different perspective.

A note to potential travelers to Egypt. With patience, one can still visit some of the royal palaces, in a neglected state open to tourists, or a few good hotels.

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The autobiography of Judy Bell, the only woman to be elected President of the United States Golf Association in its 107-year history. The book chronicles her childhood experiences, which mold her philosophy of later successes in business and life; her amateur playing career; and her distinguished career of service to golf, highlighted by her presidency of the USGA in 1996-1997.

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This book contains current 1999-2000 Values, 100's of color photos are included in this book. This book is dedicated to the photos, films and memorabilia that has been produced with Dean's likeness or image. You will find collectibles of James Dean from all over the world. This is the largest selection of its kind and this Collectors Guide is a must for any James Dean fan, movie buff, or Hollywood Memorabilia collector. Many never before seen photos are included in this book. David Loehr is the owner of the James Dean Memorial Gallery in Fairmount, Indiana, home town of James Dean.

Customer Reviews:

Jimmy Dean is hot.......2002-04-12

I'm not actually a James Dean "collector" yet, but I am so fascinated by him. The book was very interesting and informative, loaded with enough information. I'm sure it would be very helpful to any James Dean fan. I just may try finding some stuff on eBay!

For all James Dean fans.....................2000-08-06

This book is a must for all Dean fans.It has every item that has ever been made or written on Dean.......It is very informative and has lots and lots of pictures......I am so glad that I bought this book.

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Marijuana hit mainstream America over 30 years ago and has been accepted by a large segment of society ever since. Despite government efforts to isolate and eliminate its use, it is more popular now than ever. Why Marijuana Should Be Legal analyzes the effects of marijuana and marijuana laws on society. The book addresses the drug’s industrial and medical applications, preserving our Constitutional rights, economic costs, health effects, and sociological aspects. New and updated information includes how state officials are acting against the legalization of marijuana and how U.S. marijuana laws are based on inaccurate and outdated information. In discussing such issues and many more, the book presents clear, documented evidence for all of its conclusions. Also included is an annotated list of organizations that lobby for change of marijuana laws. “Rosenthal and Kubby offer crisp, well-reasoned arguments for legalizing marijuana.”—Mike Tribby, Booklist “[A]n important contribution to the current national dialog on moves toward the decriminalization of this controversial drug.”—The Midwest Book Review

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Class is in session.......2007-09-05

The Patriarch wants to do more than insult the ignorant. As a matter of fact, it is my duty to educate them as well. The topic of this class is why Marijuana, and any other narcotic, should be illegal. Actually it would be better if people were smart enough not to use these substances in the first place.(I'm not that much of an idealist.) No doubt that many of those who smoke marijuana consider themselves to be individuals that consider themselves to be against the 'establishment.' If only they knew that this 'establishment' was using these substances to enslave them.

Consider this little history lesson I have for you. Take for example the Opium wars in China during the 19th century. I understand that this may be difficult for those who don't know of any time period that predates the Grateful dead. These wars were brought on by the British whose imperialism had brought a large trade surplus from their no-so-honest dealings with the Chinese. The Chinese in turn required that they pay for Chinese goods with silver. To offset a growing negative flow of silver at home, the British began importing opium there illegally. Meditate, if you will, on that last sentence and ask yourself why the British would have done this.

Could it have been because a doped up populace would be more complacent to their exploitive ploys? I'm sure you all know of Karl Marx, right? Why you've no doubt read his writings and possibly have a picture of him somewhere in your home. (If not then you certainly have a Che Guevara shirt lying around someplace.) Marx wrote that religion was the opiate of the masses. Why who needs a substitute when you have the real thing? The governments of today don't need religion when they have enough dope to keep their most threatening citizens too inebriated to do anything against them.

It should also be apparent that for some reason the U.S. has plenty of manpower to take down small-time pushers and users while our streets are being flooded with product.

Don't take my word for anything though. Do some research on the Opium wars yourself.

PS: Ever wonder where the family of good democrat president Franklin Roosevelt got all their money from?

'ere, read this!.......2007-03-13

We really need to take this issue seriously and consider the benefits of legalizing! I'm not a smoker, but have friends and family who are. They are upstanding, conscious, hardworking citizens who don't deserve to have to sneak around. We could alleviate so much financial stife in the US if we would be more open minded about this issue. And of course, the by-products are amazing too. The author has his facts straight and writes in an easy communicative style. Buy one for the republican in your family.

filled with informative information.......2006-05-01

This is one of those books that really helps when you have people that back you into a corner and ask questions like "If its so harmless, then why is it still illegal?" it goes through the issues that arise when a debate about the plant comes to surface such as:
*Our constitutional rights
*criminal innocents
*economic costs
*health effects
*hemp: industrial applications
*medical applications
*national security
*sociological apects
*Why it isn't legal
I really enjoyed reading this book and learned a good deal from it. for those against legalization...DO YOUR RESEARCH FIRST, this book is an eye opener on the subject.

Staple Reference Book.......2006-03-16

This is a great reference book- kind of like the wading pool of issues surrounding the war on drugs. It's thought-provoking and informative, the notes are easy to follow making this book an essential educational weapon in any advocates arsenal but if you really want to know- to feel "Why marijuana should be legal" read "prescription pot" by George McMahon and Christopher Largen.

Clear and Lucid Answer to Propoganda.......2004-04-09

Although small this is a very valuable contribution to the debate over marijuana. There are so many lies and hysterical claims made by the other side and often the rebutals are clouded in a similar type of single mindedness. This book in an unemotianal way looks at the arguements and cleverly and clearly exposes them as either misconstrued, or simply wrong. The only thing missing is perhaps a more honest assesment of the damage marijuana can bring to individuals and communities. However, the standard of debate on many other issues would be well served by similar books like this one. It's unlikely to convince and rabid anti-drug crusaders but if you're open minded you'll appreciate the author's thorough research and clear disemballing of the issues.

Book Description

Locations of all the Stars
Full details on the Headquarters System and Mini-Games
Locations and descriptions of all Runes
Strategies for Bosses and Major Army Battles
Positions of all items and equipment
All secrets revealed

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Good news,Bad news., Again..........2005-03-09

Yes...same person. Different addy. :p
First the good news-it lists all 108 plus recruitable characters and how to get them. Lists of items plus secret items.Different unit attacks a map of the HQ and all of the secrets. And the bad news--if you like RPG's for the storyline don't read this book! It's one BIG spoiler... And I hate when a book does that.
Oh....and I like the thick paper the book uses.

the best guide since ff7.......2001-08-23

This has to be the best guide i have ever used it gives you detalis,info,maps,how to get the 108 stars of destiny,and more. in this guide you will find everything your looking for.so if i had to choose a guide of the year nodoubt this guide would take victory.

best guide ever.......2001-08-22

this has to be the best guide on the earth.it helps and gives information that you can use step by step.also its no spolier you have to find that out on the game.so if you don't have a copy i strongley suggest that you do.

Need all 108 stars and more? then buy it.......2001-07-30

this is a must have for suikoden II, and isn't too much of a spoiler either

Spoilers are in the eye of the beholder..........2000-10-01

The chief complaint that others seem to have about this book is that there are spoilers in places. Well, this is true, but they could be much more intrusive than they actually are. None of the big plot twists were spoiled by what little narrative Hollinger includes, which is really necessary to allow the reader to follow instructions.

And the spoiler content is really irrelevant -- what matters is that the book is excellent in all other respects. Its breakdown of where to find the 108 stars is thorough and helpful, as are its careful explanation of how to get each ending, its list of the recipes for the cooking mini-game and its timetable for the Clive/Elza subquest. Beyond that, there are a lot of gorgeous color pictures and complete dungeon maps, which are always a big plus.

Overall, this is a guide I wouldn't want to be without.

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Provocative insights on leadership from a "who's who" of leadership thought including: Tom Peters, Charles Handy, and Jim Kouzes

A stellar cast of the world's foremost leadership gurus comes together in one place to offer their thoughts on leadership in the new economy. Edited by renowned leadership expert Warren Bennis, the book addresses issues that Bennis identifies as the ones that "keep CEOs up at night", including why we tolerate bad leaders, why leadership is everyone's business, and how ethics will play into new leadership. With contributions from Charles Handy, Tom Peters, Barry Posner, Jim Kouzes, and Warren Bennis-as well as from such young entrepreneurs as Michael Klein and Tara Church-no other book includes the caliber of authors and the range of thinking found in The Future of Leadership.

Warren Bennis (Santa Monica, CA) is University Professor and Distinguished Professor of the Marshall School of Business. He is the author of nineteen books, including the bestselling Leaders (coauthored with Burt Nanus) and On Becoming a Leader. Gretchen M. Spreitzer (Pacific Palisades, CA) is Assistant Professor at USC Marshall School of Business and a faculty affiliate of both the Center for Effective Organizations and the Leadership Institute. Thomas Cummings (Palos Verdes Estates, CA) is Dean of USC's Marshall School of Business.

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weLEAD Book Review from the Editor of leadingtoday.org.......2002-02-12

This interesting work is a collection of essays by some of the world's most respected leadership thinkers. Contributors include Charles Handy, James O'Toole, Thomas Stewart, Tom Peters, Barry Posner and James Kouzes. These essays were first presented at a special conference held to honor Warren Bennis. Organizers labeled the conference a festschrift, a German word for a volume of essays assembled by colleagues to be a tribute to a renowned scholar. The essays were edited and divided into five parts:

1. Setting the Stage for the Future.

2. The Organization of the Future

3. The Leader of the Future.

4. How Leaders Stay on Top of Their Game.

5. Insights from Young Leaders.

The result is an insightful examination on the state of leadership today and the challenges it can expect to experience in the future. For example, Bennis writes the first essay and presents a number of challenging issues, including the widening disparity of talent among income levels, growing demographic changes between young and old and balancing the demands of work and home. James O'Toole looks at the organization of the future and remarks that leaders should view their tasks "as creating the systems under which others would be encouraged to do all the things that typically end up on the desk of the do-it-all leader."

The Future of Leadership is a comprehensive examination of leadership today and tomorrow provided by a number of insightful modern day thinkers. It asks some judicious questions and dares to look into the future with assurance and confidence. Some essays are better written than others, but every reader will find some valuable material and learn a new perspective from its pages.

Highly Recommended!.......2002-01-30

The Germans call it a festschrift - a book stemming from the celebration honoring a renowned scholar, in this case Warren Bennis. The luminaries (including Bennis himself) who gathered in May 2000 at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business for this festschrift offer 19 thoughtful chapters on leadership issues. In fact, the consistent quality and creativity may pleasantly surprise you. The only exception is an imaginative, but shallow and self-absorbed clunker from Tom Peters. We [...] recommend this thought-provoking collection to students and practitioners of the mysterious art of inspiring others to follow.

Great edition of diverse thinking on leadership.......2001-12-12

This work is a tribute to Warren Bennis, a celebration of his career. In praising him, he challenged those around him to address issues that continue to interest and perplex him. And, despite his years of experience and two million books of his own in print, the questions that remain are often simple and profound.

Answering these questions are top researchers, professors, commentators and consultants. The variety of authors provides a rich tapestry of information, experiences and opinions. What are the keys to great leadership? What makes one high-performing team do great things (The Manhattan Project) and another perpetrate evil (The Final Solution)? As the percent of one's life likely to be engaged in full-time employment declines (from 50 of 68 years in 1960 to 38 of 76 years today), how does this affect the way we lead and live? What happens when good leaders go bad? Is leadership aptitude widely distributed or possessed by a select few? Are business schools up to the task of developing the management and leadership talent for tomorrow?

Given the approximately hundreds of articles and dozens of books on leadership published each year, you might expect to have had these answers or at least these questions raised before. "The future of leadership" offers a fresh, readable perspective, for the business student and the manager. Sure, you might quibble with the eclectic responses and styles of this broad spectrum of authors, but the quality lies in their diversity.

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Lady Annabel Goldsmith is a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry. In these memoirs she tells of her aristocratic upbringing with an increasingly eccentric father, a Conservative MP with strong liberal leanings, and a mother who died young from cancer. She tells of her marriages, her children, and the tragedies she has faced in her life.

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Inspiring Annabel.......2007-02-22

I absolutely adored this book. I have read it twice. Although I have little in common with Annabel Goldsmith, I feel that I learned a lot from the way she has lived her life. A few thoughts, in no particular order: Despite having a title and hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank, she comes across as a truly down-to-earth, self-deprecating, and genuine person. She identifies with all types of people, and seems to be totally at peace with her position in life (not ridden with guilt) and yet you get the feeling that she has never tried to nickel and dime her staff or deny someone a tip, because she has enough class to have an understanding for working people. Also - her perspective on fidelity and relationships is fascinating. She is a woman who has always put her family and children first, yet she is far from a boring housewife. In fact, I would love to settle down with Annabel for a cozy chat some day.

Supberb.......2006-03-25

I loved this book and believe it is not to be missed. She comes across as being a very warm being, and while most people who write their autobiographies portray themselves as being good and kind people, I prefer to give Lady Annabel the benefit of the doubt. I feel the fact that she and her first husband spontaneously decamped to Austria to help Hungarian refugees in 1956 to speak for her selflessness alone. The jaded and cynical might say this was an act of fleeting youthful idealism (Lady Annabel and first husband Mark Birley were only twenty at the time, this was fifty years ago, and her autiobiography refers to no other grand acts of altruism since), but again I prefer to give her the benefit of the doubt. After all, what does it matter when and why someone does something good as long as they do it? Lady Annabel does refer to holiday homes in Spain and vacation villa's in Italy as if this something everyone can afford to do, but I think that's the point of the book, and is what makes it so interesting.

An interesting woman without tiresome tabs on herself.......2005-12-26

I couldn't help becoming fond of this thoroughly interesting woman - a Lady by birth in the British aristocratic system, and having experienced every advantage, yet not of course immune from her share of misfortune. She is likable because, although high-born, she appears very down-to-earth, humble and even accessible.

There is absolutely nothing that I have in common with her, but because there is no sign of airs and graces or name-dropping, (for example, although having met royalty, she doesn't claim to have been close to them, although she probably is actually on friendly terms) Annabel's humility actually elevates her in a strange way and evokes my admiration for her. In other words she is not a snob, although she probably has every right to be, which is how her story can even appeal to an non-aristocratic member of a colony on the other side of the world. She is a "class act" without her having to big note herself. She just presents herself as who she is. Fascinating.

One aside, I loved looking through her family photos, and couldn't help noticing an undeniable and uncanny resemblence of her two youngest sons to the late Diana, Princess of Wales. This was my only disappointment: that any connection to Diana by ancestry wasn't mentioned.

TEN STARS.......2005-10-18

This is what the memoir genre is all about. It's a classic, like the author, whom I grew to love, adore and identify with. Laced with challenges far from the ordinary, this book takes the reader to a level most people would have to be born into which makes it a perfect read after a long day.

I LOVED IT...............2005-02-07

OPEN AND HONEST AND DEFINITELY UNCONVENTIONAL. I LOVED IT. HIGHLY RECOMMEND.

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Annabel: An Unconventional Life
Annabel Goldsmith
Manufacturer: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Limited
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OSDSQQ

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16 pages of b/w plates, maps, and drawings & 6 x 9 & This collection of sparkling, erudite, and entertaining essays on Wellington's generalship and military genius provides an excellent survey of the Duke's art of war and the secrets of his success. Weller examines Wellington's mastery of logistics, his use of guerrillas in the Peninsular War, his system of intelligence, his skillful handling of the battle of Busaco, his tactics at Waterloo, and much more. It is a valuable addition to literature on Wellington and will appeal to all who are interested in the Napoleonic Wars. Jac Weller is a distinguished authority on the Duke of Wellington and the author of Wellington in India, Wellington in the Peninsula, and Wellington at Waterloo.

Customer Reviews:

A summation by Jac Weller on the Duke's art of war.......2005-01-16

"On Wellington" is a collection of essays on the Duke of Wellington's art of war. They are a distillation of Jac Weller's understanding of the Duke developed by years of study and tramping his various battlefields. The best essays are those which summarize Wellington's use of logistics, engineers, intelligence, and irregular foces in India, Portugal and Spain. There are lessons here for the modern military professional. The essay comparing India with the Vietnam War seems forced and badly dated. The exploration of the impact of Wellington's legacy on the conduct of the Civil War is intriguing but extremely cursory. As with his other work, Jac Weller's writing style is simple and easy to understand. This book does presuppose knowledge of the Napoleonic era and of Weller's earlier work, and is therefore best read as a companion volume to Weller's trilogy on the Duke of Wellington in India, in the Iberian Peninsula, and at Waterloo.

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Debates surrounding institutional change have become increasingly central to Political Science, Management Studies, and Sociology, opposing the role of globalization in bringing about a convergence of national economies and institutions on one model to theories about 'Varieties of Capitalism'. This book brings together a distinguished set of contributors from a variety of disciplines to examine current theories of institutional change. The chapters highlight the limitations of these theories, finding them lacking in the analytic tools necessary to identify the changes occurring at a national level, and therefore tend to explain many changes and innovation as simply another version of previous situations. Instead a model emerges of contemporary political economies developing in incremental but cumulatively transformative processes. The contributors show that a wide, but not infinite, variety of models of institutional change exist which can meaningfully distinguished and analytically compared. They offer an empirically grounded typology of modes of institutional change that offer important insights on mechanisms of social and political stability, and evolution generally. Beyond Continuity provides a more complex and fundamental understanding of institutional change, and will be important reading for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Political Science, Management Studies, Sociology, and Economics.

Beyond Continuity: Institutional Change In Advanced Political Economies

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Beyond Continuity: Institutional Change In Advanced Political Economies
Wolfgang Streeck
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OL4BIW

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Beyond Continuity; Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies.
Wolfgang Streeck And Kathleen Thelen
Manufacturer: Oxford U. Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N65VGE

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Organizations such as the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth are familiar to anyone with an interest in environmental protection. As activist groups, they played by the same rules for years. But in 1994, the rules changed.

With the Republican takeover of Congress, environmental groups faced sweeping changes in federal policies that threatened the enforcement of environmental laws. As these organizations intensified their efforts to meet these challenges, they also altered their electoral strategies and political spending patterns. This book traces those actions and shows what they mean for the future of environmentalism in the political arena.

While environmental advocacy groups have become bigger and better funded in recent years, so have the corporate interests that compete with them for the attention of public and politicians. The Green Agenda in American Politics offers a new look at environmental advocacy that focuses on contemporary lobbying, electioneering, and agenda setting in this new context.

Drawing on interviews with activists from a wide range of organizations, Robert Duffy describes what environmental groups actually do when lobby-ing officials or the public. He examines activity at both national and state levels to emphasize their growing use of websites, email, and action alert networks to conduct more sophisticated grassroots campaigns, and he shows how they are devoting more funds to unregulated forms of spending such as independent expenditure, issue advocacy advertising, and public education campaigns.

Duffy also tracks emerging trends in interest group politics and provides an overview of activism through the early 1990s. He then documents the emergence of more aggressive action after 1994, such as providing campaign services to candidates and mounting voter registration drives. He also shows how state and local groups have begun to play more important roles in the wake of the rollback of federal environmental regulations.

Brimming with new insights into interest group lobbies in general and contemporary environmental groups in particular, Duffy's book opens a new window on the influence of Big Money in the supposedly democratic electoral process.

This book is part of the Studies in Government and Public Policy series.

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