Refreshing, honest and realistic look at urban culture..........2006-03-09
I was entertained from the first page. I thought I knew Toure' but now I understand so much more. I want to hear more stories. Please keep writing!!!!!
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Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster: The Official Strategy Guide (Secrets of the Games)
Joe Grant Bell
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Customer Reviews:
It helps make the game more enjoyable........1999-09-23
I have had the game for a while, and only recently purchased the book to get some pointers. Without reading any one section in its entirity, I am now able to get much farther in the game and have found information I had not previously discovered. The book is very readable, and designed so that you do not have to get a complete solution to the game if you wish only for help on a sticking point. I highly recommend this book be kept on hand if you have the game. I can honestly say that this book has raised my enjoyment of the game 100%.
Book Description
Investors rocked by today's stock market woes are increasingly turning to real estate. Real Estate Investing from A to Z has become recognized in previous editions for explaining this potentially lucrative field in no-nonsense, easy-to-understand terms, while at the same time providing detailed information suitable for more seasoned investors. Substantially revised and updated chapters include discussions of REITs, risk reduction, the investment potential of single-family homes, group investments and joint ownership, and more.
Customer Reviews:
Can you say information overload?.......2007-06-30
I was searching for a good book that would give me the basics on real estate investment and came across this one at a bookstore. Judging from the title, I thought this HAS to have the most definitive information that I'm looking for in order to get started as an investor. What I found was this book made my head spin. Don't get me wrong, it has a wealth of information and I'll probably refer back to it as the need arises. I guess I was looking for more of a step by step guide or something with a more orderly approach. This is more like a dictionary - so, you'd better know exactly what you're looking for before you open it. I bought this several months ago and still haven't finished reading it. In my opinion, it's not the type of book that you would (or could for that matter) sit down and read from cover to cover, but it does have some useful info nonetheless.
Most thorough book I've read on many different real estate investment strategies.......2005-07-10
I found this to be a real meat-and-potatoes book. Crammed with lots of information, you should learn something from Pivar regardless of your experience level. Great addition to the library.
He focuses on generating wealth through land ownership, commercial properties, single family homes, and property conversions. He also covers how using options and long-term appreciation can sweeten your deals.
Great overview of Numerous types of Real Estate Investments.......2004-11-25
Wonderful book for the beginner. While more motivational and thought provoking than purely step-by-step instructional it certainly de-mystifies the process and provides the average reader with enough real life examples that at least one (or more) should appeal to you. I would say this book emboldened me to get out and do something in real estate investing.
A shallow survey.......2001-03-06
This is a great book if you want to get excited about real estate investments. The first chapters give one the impression that there is minimal risk in real estate compared to a vast upside potential.
The rest of the book surveys all the various kinds of real estate investments but does not cover them in depth. If you are looking for a book to help you evaluate a real estate transaction from a numbers standpoint, this book is not for you. I would turn to "The Real Estate Game" by Poorvu as a beginner's guide for evaluating real estate transactions.
Do you really want "A to Z" information?.......2000-11-27
The problem with a comprehensive "A to Z" book like this one is that it likely contains more information than the reader really needs. If you are interested in all aspects of real estate investing - commercial, residential and land - having to sort through the material for just one of these won't be an issue for you. But my interest is in single-family residential houses for investing and rental. The book is not organized so that I could read appropriate chapters to get the information I wanted. These three subjects are interspersed, often under the same section heading. Admittedly, there are many commonalities between the three types, but often it was difficult to discern which type was being written about or if it applied to all three. If you're mainly interested in residential real estate, check the reviews for "Rental Houses for the Successful Small Investor" by Suzanne P. Thomas. Also, just as I was beginning to get annoyed at the number of success stories about clever tactics for making "a killing" in real estate, Pivar finally wrote about a few failures - with post-mortem analysis - which helped to point out the risks in this type of investing. Perhaps because the book is about four years old now, it doesn't talk about on-line searches and some of the tax information may be not be accurate now.
Book Description
Journey back through time to relive events that shaped the Chicago metropolitan area and contributed to its world-class reputation. Chicago Days is a collection of 150 essays and 500 dramatic photographs compiled from the voluminous files of the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Historical Society, and other important collections.
Customer Reviews:
Great Stories.......2007-05-09
Every Chicago will debate the moments: How could they forget that? However, this book will remind Chicagoans why they love this city, even with the politics.
History with Pictures.......2005-01-29
I had been looking for something with the history of Chicago and some good pictures. Despite the fact that this book doesn't really cover the history of the city, it does cover indeed most, if not all highlights of the city's history since the Chicago Tribune was founded. The texts of the 150 subjects have just the correct size, and most of the pictures are as breathtaking as you would expect from a newspaper as important as the Tribune.
A Most Interesting History Lesson of Chicago!.......2002-06-15
As a professional tour director and author I am always on the lookout for good information to share with my clients. When I took out a tour titled "A Week in Chicago" I needed a reference that would give me an insight to the city that guidebooks truly don't have.
This was the book that I luckily bought!
Here's 150 one or two page articles of the most defining moments in Chicago's history. I shared the stories about Chicago Deep Dish Pizza, the Black Sox Scandal, Reversing the River, John Dillinger's Death, The Bi-level Commuter Train, and of course, the Great Fire.
I was able to give fresh accounts of these widely varied events to tourist on their first trip to Chicago. These are the stories that mature people really want to know or remember. And this book delivers 150 of them.
Whether you're a tourist or a resident, this a book to treasure if you really want to appreciate this great city. It's a professional tour director's secret resource for Chicago.
A Must Read.......2001-09-01
With excellent photography and sometimes gritty, big city narrative, Chicago Days is the sum of Chicago's history in an easy to read, fast paces, well written book that you won't put down until you reach the end.
Objective and very tongue and cheek at times, the educational and nostalgic value of this work can't be put into words. It will evoke powerful memories and feeling in Chicagoans and teach volumes to those from other cities. It would also make an excellent primer for those re-locating to Chicago from other countries, dispelling the popular myths about the City and its people.
Covering people, places, events and accomplishments with impartiality not always found in books about Chicago, this is a must read. It deserves six stars.
Interesting, thought-provoking, and easy-to-read.......1998-12-07
"Chicago Days" is an excellent chronological summation of some of the important events that have occurred in Chicago over the past 150 years. Each event is given at least one page of written description and one photo. It is good occassional reading and has something of interest for almost everyone, making it a great gift. Some featured events are historic, some sports-related, some fads or 'firsts' out of Chicago, some frivolous and some heart-warming. You needn't live in Chicago to appreciate the stories, events and historic news items found in this book.
Customer Reviews:
James Tague literally changed history!.......2006-12-20
James Tague, the Author of "Truth Withheld" is far more important to history than most realize.
You see, BEFORE they learned about James Tague, the Warren Commission were going to tell us that President Kennedy and Governor Connally were hit by seperate bullets, which of course proved conspiracy in the case, although the Commission were going to try and work around that whole "conspiracy" talk, since they were created to find a lone gunman, regardless of the evidence, in order to protect us from nuclear missiles 90 miles off the coast of Florida in a country called Cuba. However, in a way, it would have "sold" the Commission's lone gunman theory better if they had never learned about Tague, because Tague posed a serious problem to the Commission....one that would force the Commission to theorize something so nonsensical that it essentially proved conspiracy by it's mere absurdity. It was only AFTER they learned about Tague, that the Warren Commission were forced to put "square pegs in a round hole", and lamely tried to explain how one bullet could have went through the bodies of BOTH Kennedy and Connally..........how a bullet could have gone through the bodies of two grown men, turn in mid-air multiple times, break a rib and a radius (wrist) bone, and then come out in nearly pristine condition with NO RESIDUE OF BLOOD, BONE or SKIN, thus one of the most ridiculous theories in the history of U.S. Politics was born...... the theory that ONE "magic bullet" caused 7 wounds to Kennedy and Connally.
We know by the Commission's own timing of the gunshots in the assassination, based on the film shot by Abraham Zapruder, that a piece of junk mannlicher carcano rifle could not have fired fast enough to account for BOTH Kennedy and Connally's wounds, and their actions after being wounded. The importance of this cannot be overstated: IF ONE GUNMAN DIDNT HIT BOTH KENNEDY AND CONNALLY WITH ONE BULLET, THEN THAT MEANS THAT THERE WERE TWO GUNMEN FIRING FROM BEHIND THE MOTORCADE, BECAUSE ANY GUNMAN USING THE MANNLICHER CARCANO COULD NOT HAVE FIRED TWO BULLETS IN THE SHORT TIME SPAN BETWEEN WHEN KENNEDY WAS HIT AND WHEN CONNALLY WAS HIT.
ADD TO THIS, ATLEAST ONE GUNMAN IN FRONT OF THE MOTORCADE, ON THE GRASSY KNOLL, AND WE NOW HAVE AN ABSOLUTE MINIMUM OF THREE GUNMEN!!
Since they were created to find a lone gunman, the Commission had to "get" one bullet to do what no other bullet in history has ever done. And the great magic bullet myth was born.
All because James Tague was hit by a piece of deflected concrete, near the Triple Underpass in Dealey Plaza, that hit been struck by a bullet that MISSED the motorcade completely. Although James Tague would obviously have liked to have been standing someplace else that day, he unwittingly made one of the most important contributions to American history: If it wasnt for Tague's story, the Commission would have had a bit more flexibility in their "lone gunman" theory, and more Americans probably would have believed them at first. And while the true evidence in the case would have probably come out eventually, because of James Tague, the Commission was forced into a corner, and had to announce a theory so foolish, that to disbelieve the theory, meant conspiracy, by definition (I.E. atleast TWO gunmen involved in the assassination .......not taking into account gunman #3 behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll.)
*As a sidenote, Tague was among the majority of witnesses who heard atleast one shot fired from the grassy knoll.*
To be able to read a book by a man who is the only one, besides Kennedy and Connally, to be injured due to bullets being fired in Dealey Plaza on that infamous day, is a rare opportunity. He is truly a survivor.......because he felt the wrath of assassins' bullets that day......thus Tague felt the wrath of the men who killed Kennedy. And by choosing to stand where he did, to watch the motorcade, Tague unknowingly was one of the biggest reasons why those assassins werent able to hide their complicity in the Kennedy killing. Because, they could only hide their complicity in the assassination if the government let them do so, and Tague made that impossible for the Warren Commission to do.
Because of James Tague, Americans were made aware of the fact that, until they were forced to do so, EVEN THE WARREN COMMISSION THEMSELVES DIDNT BELIEVE THAT ONE BULLET HIT KENNEDY AND CONNALLY. Thus even the Warren Commission themselves believed that Kennedy and Connally were hit by seperate bullets, which meant that the Commission believed that a conspiracy took the life of America's 35th President. Whether they understood the implications of the seperate bullets striking Kennedy and Connally before James Tague became known to the Commission, only they know. The Warren Commission were formed "to close doors, not open them", so they had to try and pin it on a man who was eating lunch at the time that Kennedy was killed. But that's another story and I dont have room to discuss it here.
As stated before, James Tague unknowingly threw a large wrench in the Commission's machinery. The rest is.......... "history". As we know, "History, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, so certainly be careful what your eyes behold".
Good, but ULTIMATE SACRIFICE the best book ever.......2005-12-09
Good, but ULTIMATE SACRIFICE the best book ever
While I thought this book was worthwhile in many respects, ULTIMATE SACRIFICE is simply the best book ever on the JFK assassination.Still, worth your time.
Vince Palamara-JFK/ Secret Service expert (History Channel, author of two books, in over 30 other author's books, etc.)
Pittsburgh, PA
Lovecraft In Dealey Plaza.......2005-04-09
Tague was a salesman whose car got caught up in the massive traffic james enveloping the Dallas downtown area on the morning of November 22, 1963. Reading his account of that strange, fateful day, we begin to see for the first time how the darkness that surrounds us is due to a combination of factors which collided with a crash. Tague is a likeable narrator and gives you the feeling that he is a reliable witness, though in the back of your head you are always thinking, well he was the top car salesman ion the South, how honest could he really be ha ha? He befriended Harold Weisberg, one of the guys who came to Texas steeped in conspiuracy theory, and Tague's recollections of his late friend are somehow touching and direct in their simplicity. It is plain that Tague cared for his friend and that his 2002 death left him with a hole in his affections. So it wasn't just a collaboration between Kennedy aficionados, it was an abiding friendship.
Tague was injured during the assassination! Not severely, but enough to cause quite a commotion. A bullet came out of the grass and shot into the curb he was standing on, leaning all his weight on the stone that exploded into his face. Good thing he wasn't wearing short pants!
The strange thing is, the Warren Commission was keen to discredit Tague, even though he was one of the more upstanding witnesses to the Kennedy assassination. There's no arguing with people whose minds are made up ahead of time.
NOT THAT Tague is sure about what happened that day. There was no smking gun left at the crime. Oh wait, yes there was! in TRUTH WITHHELD, one of the last people to still be alive to tell his tale finally does so, complete with several interesting photographs which which challenge your eyesight and your "received wisdom." What happened? Who did it? When did suspicion harden into the cold wax of reality's seal? Tague knows the answers to some of these questions, and for the rest, he's refreshingly honest and refuses to pull empty answers out of his ass. I saw Oliver Srone's JFK and thought he went wway too far, impugning the good name of some and glancing right over the obcious points he might have made. Tague takes a middle balance, and his shot through the ambuscades just may be the most accurate of all.
As other reviewers note, there is something creepy about this book, with its hidden menace, as though Lovecraft were present that day in Dealey Plaza.
Fascinating witness account.......2004-07-07
Finally, someone who DOESN'T claim to know who killed President John F. Kennedy, although he was there. He was even hit! James Tague is one of the last surviving witnesses to the horrible events of November 22, 1963, and his book "Truth Withheld: A Survivors Story - Why We Will Never Know the Truth About the JFK Assassination" explains with conviction why the murder will undoubtedly recede into history unsolved.
James Tague's day began innocently enough, until traffic and his curiosity made him park his car beneath the triple underpass in Dealey Plaza to watch Kennedy's motorcade. As JFK's limo approached him, the shots rang out, and Mr. Tague's cheek was hit. From that moment on, Tague's life--and America--changed forever. Mr. Tague describes in vivid detail his interrogations--by the FBI and the Warren Commission, among others. And Mr. Tague conveys his sense that something wasn't right. It's difficult to dismiss his story.
The book leaves one with an eerie feeling, like some insiduous creature lurking in the darkness behind your back. This must have been very difficult for Mr. Tague to relive and recount, and we should be grateful that he did.
A textbook on why we have a controversy.......2003-12-14
This book finally helped me to finally understand what really happened within Warren Commission and the FBI to create a 40 year controversy. A well documented book with many FBI documents.
Book Description
In its infancy, the movement to protect wilderness areas in the United States was motivated less by perceived threats from industrial and agricultural activities than by concern over the impacts of automobile owners seeking recreational opportunities in wild areas. Countless commercial and government purveyors vigorously promoted the mystique of travel to breathtakingly scenic places, and roads and highways were built to facilitate such travel. By the early 1930s, New Deal public works programs brought these trends to a startling crescendo. The dilemma faced by stewards of the nation's public lands was how to protect the wild qualities of those places while accommodating, and often encouraging, automobile-based tourism. By 1935, the founders of the Wilderness Society had become convinced of the impossibility of doing both.
In Driven Wild, Paul Sutter traces the intellectual and cultural roots of the modern wilderness movement from about 1910 through the 1930s, with tightly drawn portraits of four Wilderness Society founders--Aldo Leopold, Robert Sterling Yard, Benton MacKaye, and Bob Marshall. Each man brought a different background and perspective to the advocacy for wilderness preservation, yet each was spurred by a fear of what growing numbers of automobiles, aggressive road building, and the meteoric increase in Americans turning to nature for their leisure would do to the country's wild places. As Sutter discovered, the founders of the Wilderness Society were "driven wild"--pushed by a rapidly changing country to construct a new preservationist ideal.
Sutter demonstrates that the birth of the movement to protect wilderness areas reflected a growing belief among an important group of conservationists that the modern forces of capitalism, industrialism, urbanism, and mass consumer culture were gradually eroding not just the ecology of North America, but crucial American values as well. For them, wilderness stood for something deeply sacred that was in danger of being lost, so that the movement to protect it was about saving not just wild nature, but ourselves as well.
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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on April 1, 2004. The length of the article is 594 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement.(Book Review)
Author: Graham D. Taylor
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Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2004
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: 39
Issue: 1
Page: 188(2)
Article Type: Book Review
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