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Les Empereurs Du Nil
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Everything the Reader From Henderson, KY Said is True.......1999-09-20
Well, when you're right, you're right! This book was a gift to me, though I have to admit that I probably would have bought it for myself, anyway. Like the Henderson reader, I have read both this book and Lonnie Wheeler's. If you're a Blue Blood UK fan, read Lonnie Wheeler's book! This book was tough to stumble through because of the terrible editing. And each example given in the other review is dead on; what a mess! Still, I too have to credit the authors for their attempt; it's too bad the editing was so shoddy. This book is a big disappointment if you read it. On the other hand, if all you want is pictures, it's pretty good.
A nice effort rendered moot by poor editing.......1998-04-15
If you're a Kentucky fan who wants scores of photographs of UK's past and present teams, players, and coaches, then this is the book for you. If, however, you want a book that gets into the substance of Kentucky basketball, read Lonnie Wheeler's "Blue Yonder, Kentucky." While the pieces on Adolph Rupp, Joe B. Hall, and Rick Pitino in "Legacy of Champions" are good on the surface, I couldn't get past the editing errors and the plethora of grammatical mistakes that made this book so difficult to like. On page 32, the narrative ends in midsentence at the bottom of the page and never is finished. What happened? The authors had an interesting story going, and I wanted to know how that story ended when it simply disappeared never to return. In addition, whoever researched the book fell down on the job by incorrectly identifying Andre Riddick (who wore #10) as Roderick Rhodes (who wore #12) on page 158. The last two lines of the first column on page 155 read, "Caption goes here like this. Caption goes here like this. Caption goes" What in the world happened to editing? And the frequent misuse of commas? Don't get me started! The authors of this book did a solid job with their material, and there are scores of good photographs throughout the work, but the lapses in editing were a huge distraction from start to finish. It's unfortunate that the "little" mistakes (and there are many) combine to take away so completely from a book that had so much potential.
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Just Making Movies: Company Directors On The Studio System
Ronald L. Davis
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From the late 1930s to the mid-1950s, five big movie studios --- Paramount, Warner Bros., Twentieth Century-Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), and RKO—dominated Hollywood's film industry. This "big studio system" operated primarily as a series of assembly-line production factories. Ideally, each churned out fifty-two movies a year, enough to supply showcase theaters across the country with a new lineup each week --- with profit being the overriding goal.
Of this era, veteran screenwriter Julius Epstein ("Casablanca") said: "It was not called the motion picture industry for nothing. [It] was like working at belts in a factory."
Studios assigned the majority of the lower-tier screenplays to directors under long-term contract and expected them to stick to the script and keep productions within the budget. These filmmakers, known as "house directors," often made films quickly, inexpensively, and with limited resources. "Just Making Movies: Company Directors on the Studio System" collects twelve interviews with house directors from this era, all conducted during the 1980s. These previously unpublished interviews provide a clear picture of how the big studio system operated, as told by those who knew it best.
Despite limitations, house directors sometimes made enduring film classics, such as Charles Walters's "Easter Parade", Henry Koster's "The Bishop's Wife", George Sidney's "The Three Musketeers", and Vincent Sherman's "The Hasty Heart". In these interviews the filmmakers talk candidly about working with such superstars as Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Richard Burton, Bette Davis, Judy Garland, Cary Grant, Ronald Reagan, John Wayne, Esther Williams, and Lana Turner.
Interviews with: Budd Boetticher, Frederick De Cordova, Gordon Douglas, Michael Gordon, Henry Hathaway, Henry Koster, Arthur Lubin, Joseph Newman, Irving Rapper, Vincent Sherman, George Sidney, Charles Walters.
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Called "a triumphant piece of reporting" (The New Yorker), Snowblind is an all-out, nonstop, and now classic look at the cocaine trade through the eyes of smuggler Zachary Swan. In a brief Roman-candle career, Swan served an elegant clientele, traveling between Bogota and the nightclubs of New York, inventing intricate scams to outmaneuver the feds. Creating diversions that were characteristically baroque, surviving on ingenuity and idiot's luck, he discovered in the process a hip, dangerous, high-velocity world that Robert Sabbag evokes with extraordinary power and humor. "One of the best books about drugs ever written." -- Robert Stone "A flat-out ballbuster. It moves like a threshing machine with a fuel tank full of ether...." -- Hunter S. Thompson "One of the first books about the cocaine trade and it is still among the best." -- Norman Mailer
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Will be timeless.......2007-03-29
I just reread after 30 years and the book still holds up.
amazing.......2003-05-28
I heard that Robert Sabbag was a good writer so I decided to pick up Snowblind up and read it and I couldn't put it down. I thought that it gave a really close look into the drug trade and it was very detailed so you really got a feel for the life that was lead. I have started reading his books now and I can't stop. I have told many of my friends to read the book.
One of the best........2002-07-18
If we consider Thomas de Quincey's "The COnfessions of an English Opioum Eater", Baudelaires "The Artificial Paradises" and Ludlows "The Hasheesh Eater" the three classical pillars of the drug books, "Snowblind" sets a new way of approaching the theme.
Sabbag manages to write a funny, entertaining and well defined book about what the beginning of the cocaine smuggling was. He has inherited the best ways of HUnter S. Thompson without loosing and inch of his own style. This book is the "bible" for all smugglers. In the last edition of Cannongate there is an introduction by Howard Marks, author of the bestseller "Mr Nice". Well, if you liked "Mr Nice" this book goes way beyond in the form and in the content. The characters shown are interesting and relevant to the story, the information delivered will not bore you. Sabbag tells what he has to (a lot) and misses what would bore you.
Normally drug books will fall into topics like rude language and obscure characters most of the time very badly developped, now, Zachary Swan is a dandy, the language is only rude when there are direct implications for it to be so (not often) and when you finish the book you have the feeling you have gone through the adventure with the Silver Fox (name given to Swan by Canadian Jack).
Thanks Sabbag!
Interesting, But Dated.......2002-03-10
I enjoyed this book, but it was a slow read. I thought it was interesting how Swan smuggled in the 70's, but I'm sure none of these techniques would work today--if for no other reason, the cocaine-sniffing dogs! The author writes very well, but he was so sharp and witty, that I'm afraid a lot of those witticms flew right over my head, and I had to re-read many times to figure out what was meant, and even then, sometimes couldn't.
Too detailed, where's the excitement.......2001-12-17
After seeing the movie Blow and reading the related book, I enjoyed the subject so much I bought this book. I was disappointed. First, this is a very old book written in the 70's. Almost an amatuerish attempt. This book describes the drug smuggler, how he gets in the business, how he imports and makes his connections, and how he eventually is caught. Unfortunately, the author didn't know how to edit the book and instead starts on a story and then decides to give you an education on everything he has read about the subject. Then he goes back to the story. Therefore, I found this book to be verrrrry slow.
On the positive side, it's almost comical how this guy falls in the business and decides to go to Columbia to set up his product. Not really knowing anyone, he just meets street people and eventually runs into connections. The smuggler's real talent is concocting the scam on bringing the product in. Most of his shipments are not stopped, but even if they were, he develops stories so his mules can act like they had no knowledge and won't be charged. You should be aware, this is really not a big-time smuggler on the scale of the Blow character, but rather this smuggler brings in enough to last him a few months, then goes back for another trip.
If you're interested in drug smuggling, this book may fill in the holes. But from a pleasurable fascinating pleasurable read, there are better books like "Blow".
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Snowblind.......2007-02-20
Snowblind is the story of legendary cocaine smuggler, Zachary Swan, whose exploits and scams in the sixties and early seventies ran rings around police and custom officals alike.
Robert Sabbag's riveting account of Swan's brief career provides a compulsive insight into the cocaine underworld in which all the double-dealing crazy characters and paranoia are captured brilliantly. The result is one of the funniest and most illuminating books about the drug trade ever written - a genuine underground classic.
--- from book's back cover
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Snowblind: A brief career in the cocaine trade
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DELL BOOK OF LOGIC PROBLEMS #4 (Dell Book of Logic Problems)
Erica L. Rothstein
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A good book, but not for beginners or advanced players.......1999-08-31
I think the book is great, but if you are a beginner there are only a couple easy puzzles. The same is true if you are advanced. Only the intermediete players can get the most out of the book. I would like to see a book for different levels.
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I love this book.......2007-05-03
If you're looking for a book strictly dedicated to logic problems in which charts are used to work out solutions (i.e. 5 people with 5 jobs wearing 5 shirt colors - figure out who does what job wearing what shirt), this book is for you.
I was ecstatic to finally find a book that exclusively had these types of puzzles as I've been oftentimes disappointed by puzzle/game books, which had maybe 3 or 4 of these types of puzzles amongst a myriad of highly lame other types.
These 75 puzzles will keep you plenty busy and are a reliable go-to for entertainment and hearty brain exercise.
Eye Twitchers.......2001-10-31
I've been into Dell Crosswords and Especially Logic Problems since I was 16; my father's word puzzle love facilitated my addiction.
I use a logic problem to lull me to sleep every evening. Yearly I upgrade my thesaurus for the latest, and more wordly edition to keep up with the curves thrown by the international crosswords. Try to keep my mind a step above the "rust".
Back in my Trig and Calc days, they drilled into me the need to constantly write down known variables, and chart info, to keep track of your formulas and progress in solving a problem. Logic Problems reinforce this practice.
I've got my kid thinking in charts with his schoolwork, especially homework.
Challenging and fun.......2000-07-10
I have always loved logic problems better than any other puzzles. This book definitely delivers some hefty problems. Though it contains only 75 of them, each are involved enough to keep you working on each one for a good while. The only drawback is that the answer section in the back does not have charts. I would have like to seen a graph to quickly see if I'm right or not. Though, each problem does have a talk through section and a concise summary of answers.
Overall, each problem is challenging and has a variety of subjects to keep you involved with it. If you like logic problems, I highly recommend this. It's definitely worth it.
Excellent problems to solve.......1998-10-27
In my capacity as a teacher, I want students to have practice THINKING..and this is what logic puzzles such as the ones here provide. This book includes the organizational charts, the solution to the puzzles, as well as an explanation for the solutions. It would be excellent if they would include the answer in chart form as well. (I translate these for foreign language classes..the language is simple enough for a beginning level class. Very challenging !
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DELL BOOK OF CLASSIC LOGIC PRO (nxtrep) (Dell Book of Classic Logic Problems)
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The Dell Book of Logic Problems, No 4
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This practical book is the most comprehensive guide to legal citations for legal practitioners. It explains the rules established in "The Bluebook" and provides a complete and thorough overview of citation from exclusively for practitioners. The chapters are arranged in a building block approach, and examples and answer keys are provided so that readers can verify their progress and proficiency enabling them to master cite checking one step at a time.
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Familiar Stranger by Michael McClymond is a very readable introduction to that elusive figure known as "the historical Jesus" - his life, his world, his sayings and doings, accounts of his death and resurrection, and his followers' efforts to understand him.
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level headed reading.......2006-09-12
the subject of Jesus is one of which much has been said and written. This book gives a pretty solid and sane overview of Jesus studies and subjects. It is not exhaustive of course, and it is not the final word, the book doesn't claim to be, however it will give the reader a good deal of very relevant Jesus study issues to know about. It avoids fundamentalist extremes while also avoiding liberal extremes. For a few other good books on Jesus try: Jesus and The Gospels by Craig Blomberg; Jesus and His World by Peter Walker; The Original Jesus by N.T. Wright.
Introducing Jesus for the First Time.......2006-07-20
The title of this book is appropriately named as many in our contemporary society claim belief in Jesus, and yet know very little about this "familiar stranger." This book is not merely a repetition of the ever increasing debate about the historical Jesus, it becomes "through mild scholarly language" a way to see Jesus presented as a whole. This book is extremely objective, and yet still presents the facts in a considerate manner. Trust me, this book is a wonderful start for anyone who wants to explore Jesus, but one is not to stop here. I recommend reading "Reinventing Jesus" which further answers tough questions about Jesus and the formation of Christianity.
Erudite But.......2006-03-22
This is an extremely edurite text that covers a large amount of material. It some respects it reads like a doctoral dissertation, and that is the book's main strength and its main weakness. For although the author covers the ground thoroughly and his descriptions of other scholars' works are thorough and unbiased (which is certainly welcome in this area), and his documentation is more than adequate, the reader will come away with very little this is new or provocative. It could be argued that "new or provocative" are not necessarily virtues and a strong scholarly book, even if pedestrian, is always welcome. That would be true, except for the extremely high level at which this book is addressed. I doubt that beginning students could even read it, much less gain from it. It's clearly for the advanced scholar, yet without offering much that is new, what is the purpose? The authors tells us in the early pages that he chose not to "dumb down" his approach, and I think it was a bad decision. A dumb-downed version of this book would be an excellent introduction for the beginning student.
Of course the book is not without its errors, especially with regard to Jesus' relationship to his family. McClymond makes the common mistake of accepting Mark 3:21 with its usual translation which is clearly incorrect (i.e., the reference is to his disciples, not to his family who do not show up for 10 more verses). He also believes that Jesus was born in 4 B.C. (I prefer 6), that he lived in Nazareth (which archeologists tell us didn't even exist until mid 1st Century A.D.), that he and his father were carpenters (I prefer the "tecton" translation as master craftsman which helps explain Jesus' education, something a carpenter would not have had), that Jesus died in 30 A.D. (36 is the obvious date), etc. He also makes the mistake of claiming that Jesus is identified in the works of Pliny and Suetonius, when the fact is that "Christ" or the "anointed one" is identified without any reference to the person named Jesus/Joshua. Since there were many anointed ones, the reference to "Christ" was hardly definitive for 1st Century writers.
Advanced students will probably want to take a look at this book because it is so well done and well documented, but beginning students should be forewarned.
PS - I wish Amazon allowed more than 5 stars. This is clearly an excellent book, but I can only assign 3 stars using their current system.
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Something profoundly important occurred in early 19th century America that came to be called democracy. Since then hundreds of millions of people worldwide have operated on the assumption that democracy exists. Yet definitions of democracy are surprisingly vague and remarkably few reckon with its history. In Self-Rule, Robert Wiebe suggests that only in appreciating that history can we recognize how breathtaking democracy's arrival was, how extraordinary its spread has been, and how uncertain its prospects are.
American democracy arrived abruptly in the 19th century; it changed just as dramatically early in the 20th. Hence, Self-Rule divides the history of American democracy into two halves: a 19th century half covering the 1820s to the present, and a 20th century half, with a major transition from the 1890s to the 1920s between them. As Wiebe explains why the original democracy of the early 19th century represented a sharp break from the past, he recreates in vivid detail the way European visitors contrasted the radical character of American democracy with their own societies. He then discusses the operation of various 19th century democratic publics, including a nationwide public, the People. Finally, he places democracy's white fraternal world of equals in a larger environment where other Americans who differed by class, race, and gender, developed their own relations to democracy.
Wiebe then picks up the history of democracy in the 1920s and carries it to the present. Individualism, once integrated with collective self-governance in the 19th century, becomes the driving force behind 20th century democracy. During those same years, other ways of defining good government and sound public policy shunt majoritarian practices to one side. Late in the 20th century, these two great themes in the history of American democracy—individualism and majoritarianism—turn on one another in modern democracy's war on itself.
Finally, Self-Rule assesses the polarized state of contemporary American democracy. Putting the judgments of sixty-odd commentators from Kevin Phillips and E.J. Dionne to Robert Bellah and Benjamin Barber to the test of history, Wiebe offers his own suggestions on the meaning and direction of today's democracy. This sweeping work explains how the history of American democracy has brought us here and how that same history invites us to create a different future.
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A history of our democracy.......2005-02-25
Robert Wiebe has written a brilliant history of the American meaning of democracy.
Over the years, Wiebe had (he passed away a few years ago) read deeply in democratic theory whether written by philosophers, social scientists or what he calls publicists (what I would call popular commentators- people like Kevin Phillips, Robert Bellah, William Greider, Irving Kristol).
He concluded that most of their writings about democracy had been skewed by a lack of any historical foundation. Their theories had no cultural specificity and no sense of what had worked as opposed to ideas about how democracy "should" work.
This book is the result. He chose about 60 core writings (one by each author with the singular exception of Rawls who is allowed two). The introduction is a very enjoyable summing up of the some of the problems that Wiebe has with these core writings. It comes down to the fact that, whether from the left, right or middle, all of the authors feel that We the People have failed to live up to our responsibility to see it their way. (Please note that Wiebe is much more elegant about how he argues for his point).
Wiebe then launches into his historical corrective. He has three major themes about the history of democracy in this country.
The first theme is based on his assertion that, "societies organize around the rules of who works for whom, and the beneficiaries protect those rules in the name of all that is good in this world and holy in the next" (p.23). Wiebe asserts that there have been two major changes in those rules in our history and that those changes have created three major stages in our democratic history.
The second theme is that our democracy has two major components: the collective and individual or, in another phrasing, popular self-government and individual self-determination (p.9). These components have sometimes worked with each other and sometimes against each other.
The final theme is how the various institutions of democracy (e.g. voting qualifications) have been used to tame or obstruct some of the "excesses of democracy"
Wiebe (I am stating this very baldly) sees the major changes as occurring sometime around the 1820s and the 1930s. In the first case, we moved from a system that was still based on deference to elites in all aspects of our lives. As a people we looked to leaders in our churches, in our local communities and on the national level to represent us, to act in our common interest. Many Americans arrived on these shores legally obligated to their employers. We were a nation of apprentices, indentured servents and tenants. Wiebe's democratic changes began with challenges to that form of work structure. Indentured servitude was challenged in the courts and lost. Apprenticeships began to disappear. After the War of 1812, the Native American no longer had any European power that helped them resist American incursion on their lands. We stole as much land from them as we could including large chunks of Alabama, Georgia and Florida. The U.S. government then sold that land cheaply and in small parcels. As a result, by the 1850s, almost 90% of American farmers owned their own land.
Such self-directed work was reflected in the political realm. The mandate broadened to include all white men. And those white men played the democratic citizen with a fervor throughout the 19th century that has not been matched since.
In some ways, this is the period of American history that Wiebe sees as having been the most democratic. The political power of the time was diffused so there was little chance for effective corruption. White men exerted control locally and nationally. When the discussion broke down, we went to war, i.e., the Civil War. But afterwards, after the brief interlude of Reconstruction, we went back to white men deciding within their own communities how to do things. Please do not read me or Wiebe as saying this was a good thing- it is simply the way it was. The 1930s put an end to all that democracy by establishing a national elite working together with local middle class elites. The national elite was not so much one of money as of values. Wiebe sees this compromise between national and local elites as born of the necessity of the 1930s. The national government determined the shape of policy and the local elites were allowed how to put it in place. Choices were presented as not being about competing values but about the rationality of policies. Such things should be left to the experts, the technocrat.
This particular compromise worked until the 1960s. Previously marginalized groups (African-Americans, women, Native Americans, etc.) began to assert their rights on the streets, through the courts or through Congress. When the national elite institutions like the Warren Court began to challenge the local elites over their control over their own communities then the war of values began again.
This is where Wiebe leaves us. I cannot overstate how more insightful his presentation of the argument is then my summation. I have rarely marked up a book as much as I have marked up this one. His arguments and insights cut across the political spectrum and are fueled by a faith in our ability to decide our own fate as a collective and as individuals. He does not feel that we have to be more educated, more rational, less religious or more serious. Wiebe wants us to simply show up, act and demand control over our lives. His solutions can be summed up in the idea of diffusing decision making. I have serious doubts about how easy he makes some of this sound (I wonder sometimes if it is possible to universalize the rights enumerated in or "emanating" from the Constitution. Yet I know we have to keep trying). But I cannot express how refreshing is Wiebe's attitude and faith in us. This book deserves the widest possible audience and discussion.
Contemporary Democracy in America.......2004-03-12
Toqueville's Democracy in America brought up to date--i.e., post-Mexican War, Civil War, emancipation, Native Americans on reservations, urbanization, industrialization, Spanish War and consequent empire, national and corporate-global economy, incredible immigrations, world wars, New Deal, Cold War, Korean War, Civil Rights Movement, Women's Liberation, Reagan Revolution, Gulf War, etc.--up to the 1990's "seething discontents" and "selfish interests, oblivious to minority rights, passing unjust laws...all unchecked by an overriding vision of the public good or what it might consist of...." Decision-making and those left out of it, "a babel of narrow-minded parochial concerns." Beyond "the radical premise that something terrible had gone wrong in the world," a parade of brilliant insights and a self-help strategy.
For instance, in the 20th century--unlike the USA before 1870, say--newcomers "needn't prove themselves anyone's equal"--they couldn't. They only needed "to find their proper level."
And: Big national government focusing on the economy and military, leaving cultural and ethnic matters to local juries. Ruling opinion, i.e., "ideological habituation," having its effect, "as though instinctual."
Wiebe was a small-d democrat, a disrespecter of those holding power, who risked--knowing the risk--believing in the potential to fulfill the dreams of democracy, liberty, and justice.
Great book.
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Presenting the results of an extensive, long-running program of research on mountain birch, over 30 data-rich chapters cover the history, climatic influences, and interactions of animals and insects on the growth and distribution of mountain birch.
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