E. Bronson Ingram: Complete These Unfinished Tasks of Mine (Thl (Series).)

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Biography of E. Bronson Ingram, a complex, private man who was best known for his vast business interests and his many philanthropic efforts. Written by his wife, Martha Rivers Ingram, this is a candid behind-the-scenes look at his early life, business principles and practices, and family.

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Greatest player ever.......2000-11-16

This book is an excellent read, not only for the football history, but also for the context of the times. This paints a clear picture of what it was like in Stalinist Hungary after the war, and how even a man in a position of privilege could decide to leave. You don't need to be a football fan to appreciate this book, as it is an easy read, broken up into sections where other key figures are interviewed and offer their take on the same topics. Highly recommended.

Greatest player ever.......2000-11-16

Magnificent, accurate and a look behind the Iron Curtain.......2000-07-03

This book depicts not only the life story of Ferenc Puskas who without any doubt should always be the member of the World Select, but the intrigues of the Communist system. I happen to personally know some of the participants named in the book, as I have lived In Hungary during the years of the Golden Squad! To have a team such as the Hungarian Select of the '50s may happen only once in a 100 years. The book, brings to life not only the achievements of the players but the intrigues of the totalitarian system that used such talents as Puskas & Co. to prove the superiority of the "Socialist Man".You don't need to be a "soccer" footbal fan to appreciate its true to life account of an era and its players gone by. The play-by-play reporting is outstanding. There was only one Puskas and this book immortalized him forever.It sure brought back the memories of the '52 Olympics, the "6:3" match in London and the thrill and the horrible end of the'54 World Cup... This book is a microcosm of man against the system and the system against the MAN...

Magnificent, accurate and a look behind the Iron Curtain.......2000-07-03

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Elegant, haunting and arresting, the film and video works of Jane and Louise Wilson have attracted increasing acclaim and attention, culminating in a nomination for the 1999 Turner Prize. The twins specialize in supremely vivid evocations of a particular spirit-of-place, drawing on cinematic conventions and allusions to conjure a heightened, often uncanny atmosphere. This monograph, which features a specially commissioned essay by Jeremy Millar, covers their career to date, encompassing their various short tapes and films as well as the powerful, hypnotic projection installations that have made their names.

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Harold would turn in his Grave.......2003-08-08

It is hard to believe that a book that is so evocative in the none facile sense remains a dead pan loquation of justifiable anti-infantilism. Much of what masquarades as art is puerile rot:the Wilsons are magic; they are geet lush; they are great. I love their work. Killer lines within are awash with qualitative prose of a none epic sense, yet it remains provocatively angst ridden and betlittles the concept of alienation and estrangement. Contempt is a dilute form of hate.

Awaiting Oblivion.......2002-01-26

It is this transparency of surveillance imposed under the auspices of protection and care which interests the Wilsons. From the implied complicity of Hypnotic Suggestion 505 (1993) to the beguiling kitsch of Las Vegas Graveyard Time (1999), their work reveals the mechanism of coercion under the absent yet omnipresent 'eye of power'. The obvious distinction between their earlier work and more recent investigations is a shift away from the human figure (usually one or both of the artists) as sole metaphor for the complicit subject to depopulated sites, which resonate with implied social control.

1st Valencia Biennial: Communication Between the Arts, The

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1st Valencia Biennial: Communication Between the Arts, The
Peter Greenaway , Emir Kusturica , Shiro Takatani , Nobuyoshi Araki , Achille Bonito Oliva , Jake Chapman , Dinos Chapman , Clegg & Guttmann , Cecily Brown , Jan Fabre , Alan Rath , Andres Serrano , Jane Wilson , Louise Wilson , Massimo Bartolini , John Bock , David Byrne , Claude Closky , Andreas Gursky , Mona Hatoum , Luigi Settembrini , and Robert Takatani, Shiro Wilson
Manufacturer: Charta
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 8881583364
Release Date: 2001-10-02

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This first edition of the Valencia Biennial was dedicated to communication between the arts and centered on innovation as the language of contemporary culture. Featured artists include Nobuyoshi Araki, Peter Greenaway, Mona Hatoum, Clegg & Guttmann, Richard Billingham, Maja Bajevic, Cecily Brown, John Bock, David Byrne, and Anish Kapoor.

Annika Von Hasswolff, Jane and Louise Wilson, Weegee, Magasin 3, Aug - Dec 2000

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Annika Von Hasswolff, Jane and Louise Wilson, Weegee, Magasin 3, Aug - Dec 2000
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ASIN: B000PSXAY0

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Haluk Akakce: Sky is the Limit
Alex Farquharson , and Haluk Akakce
Manufacturer: Creative Time Books
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ASIN: 1928570046
Release Date: 2007-05-01

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In 2006, with the assistance of the New York public art agency Creative Time, the Turkish-born, London-based video artist Haluk Akakce launched his monumental Las Vegas installation, Sky is the Limit, above four blocks of open-air casinos, kiosk vendors and vintage neon icons on the infamous strip, Fremont Street. Utilizing the latest technology to create a "realer than real" experience, Haluk Akakce's work stages a confrontation between artificial and organic life, suggesting both the liberating and alienating power of technology, and evoking an alternate fluid sense of space and time. According to art critic Alex Farquharson, Akakce opens a view into "a world of seemingly endless possibility where it seems one may become anything simply by believing in its possibility."

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Jane and Louise Wilson
Lisa Corrin
Manufacturer: Galgiani, Phillip
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ASIN: 1870814223

Outer and Inner Space: Pipilotti Rist, Shirin Neshat, Jane and Louise Wilson, and the History of Video Art

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Outer and Inner Space: Pipilotti Rist, Shirin Neshat, Jane and Louise Wilson, and the History of Video Art
John B. Ravenal
Manufacturer: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Borrowing from the title of Andy Warhol's 1965 double-screen film, Outer and Inner Space, this book explores how video art addresses the interplay between external reality and internal states of mind. Three recent video installations -- by Pipilotti Rist, Shirin Seshat, and Jane and Louise Wilson -- are placed in the context of forty influential early works from the late 1960s to mid-1980s. These pairings underscore both the change and the continuity in video art, from its rough-edged experimental origins to works that use sophisticated technology to create environments of image and sound.

Jane and Louise Wilson (exhibition).: An article from: Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine

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Jane and Louise Wilson (exhibition).: An article from: Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine
Roy Exley
Manufacturer: Parachute Contemporary Art
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ASIN: B0008GOSWW
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine, published by Parachute Contemporary Art on January 1, 2000. The length of the article is 972 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: Jane and Louise Wilson (exhibition).
Author: Roy Exley
Publication: Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2000
Publisher: Parachute Contemporary Art
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Jane and Louise Wilson

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Jane and Louise Wilson, Las Vegas, graveyard time: [exhibition] October 19-December 17, 2000 (Concentrations)

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Jane and Louise Wilson, Las Vegas, graveyard time: [exhibition] October 19-December 17, 2000 (Concentrations)
Suzanne Weaver
Manufacturer: Dallas Museum of Art
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ASIN: B0006RQ5AG

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The Triumph of Vulgarity in a thinker's guide to rock 'n' roll. Rock music mirrors the tradition of nineteenth-century Romaniticsm, Robert Patison says. Whitman's "barbaric yawp" can still be heard in the punk rock of the Ramones, and the spirit that inspired Poe's Eureka lives on in the lyrics of Talking Heads. Rock is vulgar, Pattison notes, and vulgarity is something that high culture has long despised but rarely bothered to define. This book is the first effort since John Ruskin and Aldous Huxley to describe in depth what vulgarity is, and how, with the help of ideas inherent in Romaniticism, it has slipped the constraints imposed on it by refined culture and established its own loud arts. The book disassembles the various myths of rock: its roots in black and folk music; the primacy it accords to feeling and self; the sexual omnipotence of rock stars; the satanic predilictions of rock fans; and rock's high-voltage image of the modern Prometheus wielding an electric guitar. Pattison treats these myths as vulgar counterparts of their originals in refined Romantic art and offers a description and justification of rock's central place in the social and aesthetic structure of modern culture. At a time when rock lyrics have provoked parental outrage and senatorial hearings, The Triumph of Vulgarity is required reading for anyone interested in where rock comes from and how it works.

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one good angle on the direction of our culture.......2004-03-24

I read this book long ago when it was first published and found it fascinating. I found myself reflecting on it today as I was thinking about the slow death of "classical" music. The author makes the case that rock music is the product of the ideas of 19th century on democracy and individualism, the celebration of things common.

While there has always been a divide between the music of the upper and lower classes, I suppose it was not until late in the 19th century and continuing on that the "lower class" music began to be celebrated by the established musicians. I'm thinking specifically of the folk tune inspired works of composers like Brahms and Dvorak.

My reflection on Pattison's book now is that his thesis has been more than adequately proven with the continued growth of bottom-up trends in fashion and music. While rock and roll, as he argues, may have a mythical relationship to African music, modern hip-hop seems to have a very real relationship to current lower class culture. Other authors since then have dealt more generally with this theme I am sure (Theodore Dalrymple comes to mind), but I thought Pattison did great work showing how the ideas of the 19th century thinkers have influenced this development.

a truly insightful, stunning book on rock music.......2001-06-02

I keep finding myself coming back again and again to this excellent study from Pattison which convincingly argues that rock's aesthetic is a vulgarized form of the ideals behind the great romantic poets. Far from the clueless, absurd academic piece that one may fear, Pattison proves to be a real fan of rock music, in fact he is in many ways more thoroughly versed in rock than many respectable big-name rock critics like Marcus or Marsh. Black Flag, the Fall and the Meat Puppets are just a few of the groups touched on. The most insightful chapters, in my opinion, are the ones dealing with the white romanticization of black Americans as "soulful" others, as well as the myth of the noble lower-class hillbilly. Pattison provides the only believable explanation (too complex to go into here) as to why the racially divided south produced the great black-white musical hybrids of our time (country, blues, jazz and rock n' roll). Pattison doesn't see the pagan roots of rock n' roll or romantic poetry as negative.

Outstanding But Strangely Flawed.......1999-06-13

One of the best and most eurudite studies of Rock music as a cultural phenomenon and sociology. Pattison is both a critic and fan of Rock music, but the latter function doesn't turn him into a sniveling sycophant full of pretentious drivel like the usual Rock music magazine writers. He hits the nail right on the head with his comparison to romanticism. Pattison doesn't take his study far enough, however, as he ignores his own glaring exposes of the neo-pagan/religious dimensions of Rock music. He performs an intensive study of why Rock music is such mindless, vulgar pagan "jungle music" that people react to without thinking, a powerful cultural force. But in the last few pages he tries to discount everything he has written and substantiated in his book! He cannot accept the very conclusion he has so devestatingly exposed! He realizes that he seems to have come too close to the stance of the Christian right (and most of traditional Christianity) in its attack on Rock-n- Roll as "devil's music." As a true Rock fan (no true "holy roller" Rock detractor could have as much crucial information about Rock music and its details as Pattison), Pattison doesn't want to push his argument to its logical conclusion and condemn the music he so loves, therefore he makes a pathetic jab at the Christian right at the end and chicken's out. He is docked a star for this. Nevertheless, this is the best, most intelligent and objective study of Rock music that I have read, I have read a hell of a lot on the subject--most of it is drivel.

Unknown classic of rock criticism.......1999-02-15

This is the best single book ever written on the general subject of rock and roll. It is free of the both the sloppy hype of trashy works on popular culture, and the ludicrously inappropriate jargon of high-toned academic treatments of the subject. Pattison demonstrates very convincingly rock's roots in nineteenth-century pantheism, and shows how, to a surprising extent, all of pop music's "rebels" conform to its tenets. The author is clearly a knowledgeable fan of rock but doesn't make outrageous claims for it; he shows amazing taste and discretion. A book as enjoyable and stimulating as it is neglected; I've never seen a reference to it in the rock press or met anyone else who has read it. It's definitely worth the effort to find it.

The Triumph of Vulgarity: Rock Music in the Mirror of Romanticism

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The Triumph of Vulgarity: Rock Music in the Mirror of Romanticism
Robert Pattison
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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Dungeon World is a d20 System campign setting that turns the idea of fantasy role-playing on end. This is the first follow-on to the wildly popular Dungeon World Universe campaign sourcebook.

Beneath, between and behind the Nex lies Kerse, the so-called Enemy Capital, where dozens of races are locked in a immortal conflict for control of the city. Kerse is a melting pot of sorts, where almost anything can be bought or found.

Throughout the ages, the mysterious Caretakers have stoked the flames of the hatred and distrust in Kerse, by now something has changed, and they have dispatched their Horsemen of Balance. Can your characters survive long enough to turn the tide...or escape?

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This book provides readers with everything they need to make the most of Project 2003. Project 2003 helps users manage projects indepently or as part of a large organization. Business professionals can gain access into their portfolio of projects, and collaborate on the documents, issues and risks associated with those projects.

Special Edition Using Office Project 2003, covers both Standard and Enterprise Project Management versions and provides direct answers about how to put a project schedule together. It is organized to follow the project cycle of initializing and developing a plan, implementing the plan, tracking progress and adjusting to changes and unforeseen events, and preparing the final reports.

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Excellent Book for Reference.......2007-01-04

I am not a very experienced Project Manager.
I bought the book as I was going to participate in Projects in my organization and planned to equip myself with everything I could about it.

Also, I took 2 Microsoft Oficial Courses (beginner and intermediate) on Microsoft Project 2003 that costed my organization about $200.

I give it 5 Stars because the book has every topic there is about Microsoft Project 2003 that I have come to need (and more).

However, if you are new to MS Project consider that it might pay you more to take some courses. You will learn in them all the backbone knowledge to succesfully manage projects without having to spent alot of hours reading the book.

Remember that this book is very extensive on each topic, it's excellent for reference or advanced use specially when you're an experienced project Manager since you will learn stuff you didnt know you could do.
But if what you're looking for is learning Project 2003, I think its faster and more practical to take a course.

Not-so-hot.......2006-02-01

Using Microstoft Project 2003 by Tim Pyron
It's exactly 2.000 inches thick, which, I believe, must have been one of the publisher's criteria. If you've used Project for years on a daily basis and want to know even more, it's for you. If you want to learn Microsoft Project, don't buy this book. It's a direct violation of the "Say what you need to, as simply as you can" rule from 8th grade English. Do yourself a favor. Forget about MS Project and buy Mindjet's MindManager software. You can learn that in an afternoon and it's far more powerful software.

The only book that provides answers to tough questions.......2005-08-25

I have three other project books on my shelf but whenever I run into a tough situation, this is THE book I go to. No other books out there (not even the self proclaimed bible) explains features as in depth as this book does. I especially like the section on leveling and how it explains the 7 factors used to resolve conflicts. This is a must have for all serious users of MS Project.

More Project than I thought possible.......2004-07-13

I picked this up as I was in the middle of several complex Project plans for network upgrades and migrations, as well as a mass rollout of Office 2003. I'd used previous versions of Project before but never really learned how to use it.

By the time I finished the first 10 chapters, I had already tripled my Project knowledge...and the really cool stuff was yet to come. Project, like Visio, is an extremely complex application that most people never crack the surface as far as usability goes. Anyone who is doing heavy Project Management needs to use Project, this is the book to learn by.

Answers to effectively manage computerized office projects.......2004-05-06

Tim Pyron's Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Project 2003 is enhanced with an accompanying CD and provides direct answers to effectively manage computerized office projects. Highly recommended both as an instructional guide and as a continuing reference, Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Project 2003 includes answers on project development and implementation, as well as tracking progress and adjusting to changes, developing final reports, and more.

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Bill Bonanno could be just another 66-year-old retiree, gone to Tucson, Arizona, to live out his remaining years in a hospitable climate. But he's not. "I come from a long line of Mafiosi," he informs us, taking pains to establish the difference between Mafiosi, a term "rooted in the character and the values of the men and women who were the everyday makers of Sicilian history," and the fictional Mafia. (Bonanno knows from crime fiction: there are those who say that he's the real-life model for Michael Corleone, and he does not deny it.) Bound by Honor is as much a family saga as it is a true crime story, and Bonanno's insightful self-reflection guarantees a distinctive degree of honesty and depth.

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A young mafioso being groomed for leadership spends his nights at the Stork Club in New York City, rubbing elbows with the likes of Tony Bennett, Marilyn Monroe, and Mickey Mantle....Two proud men, one named Bonanno, the other named Kennedy, dream of their sons taking over their dynasties-each taking a different, but equally powerful pat....A sudden spray of bullets rips through the salon in Manhattan's Park Sheraton Hotel; moments later, a major figure on the organized crime scene-slumped over in midshave-lies dead in his barber chair....These are stories not from Mafia movies, but from real life....a way of life which may be gone, but is long from forgotten. Bill Bonanno is the authentic article-born into a powerful mob Family and married into another, he has seen it all. Widely reputed to be the model for Michael Corleone in The Godfather, Bonanno tells the astounding story which only he can tell in Bound By Honor: of the Five Families and their stormy infighting for control over organized crime; of his father's close friendship with Joe Kennedy and the truth about JFK's assassination; and of a world born of respect and loyalty....and etched in violence and blood.

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Good Book.......2007-10-01

This was a very interesting book. It had some fascinating insight into the world of Mafiosa.

Bag of Wind.......2005-11-16

I have read nearly every book written about the Mafia, both good and bad. Let me say this: Bill Bonanno's book goes beyond bad. It's absolutely awful.

The title itself, "Bound by Honor", is soaked in irony. Where is the honor in breaking the law, going to prison, living a lifestyle that includes trampling on the rights and lifestyles of other people?

My own father truly was a Man of Honor. He got up everyday and went to work and made an honest living. He may not have gotten rich, but he never served a day in prison or lied to save his own skin. But Bonanno has done both. Where is the honor in that?

As I read one of the book's passages about a gunfight that Bonnano was in, it struck me that his vision of that shootout was rooted more in stupidity than in danger.

While Mafia books do interest me, the lifestyle itself disgusts me and makes me glad that I live a clean life.

My biggest regret concerning Bonanno's book is that I spent money on it- even if it was on sale. It was a waste of money written by a blowhard who wasted a college education and probably put a good wife through hell. Some Man of Honor, that Bill Bonanno.

So the bottom line is this: don't waste your money. His story isn't worth reading, he isn't worth respecting, and there isn't one scintilla of honor to be found in the activities of his family.

Legend of his own mind.......2004-03-22

The book as such is an easy read and has some amusing stories, it is, however, filled with appearent contradictions and self promoting spins on most of the events.
The writer is clearly unable to put is own life into perspective and believes he has done no wrong........but that the government is at fault for hunting down organised crime, mostly himself and his father (who is depicted as the role model mobster).
The book is worth reading if the subject itself is of interest to you. For most readers it will become clear that the writer is a complete and total loser.

Don't Miss the Point.......2003-06-25

This book isn't about crime; it's about a broken heart. Like Michael Corleone, what Bonanno did to preserve his family destroyed it; like Corleone, once he got involved, he couldn't get out. This explains his fatalistic feeling that his role in life was preordained at birth.

Contrary to other reviews here, Bonanno DOES give new details, like why Bugsy Seigal was killed and who the second shooter was in Dallas. His explanation of who killed the Kennedys and why is worth the price of the book. He shouldn't be expected to give details about his own capers, not only because this would be self-incriminating, but because he was a strategist, not a soldier or capo. He's a policy wonk of crime.

He says the U.S. Government is the biggest mob around. If true, this not only justifies why Sicilians are as they are, but burdens the rest of us with a warning. Even if false, it indavertently supports his point that "the life" came to an end when those practicing it entered into a war of attrition with a foe more capable of maintaining it. Maybe greed wasn't to blame; maybe it was hubris.

Even if the book is self-serving or written for profit, that it exists is omerta's epitaph. It demonstrates that action for its own sake can be as addictive as heroin and harder to shake. It restates two great truths--"whatever is taken by force must be maintained by force" and "force feeds on force." It also proves that two cultures can't exist in the same place at the same time; one absorbs the other or eliminates it. A war between the Mafia and America could end in only one way. Bonanno says that his father knew this; I believe him.

Honorable Mention.......2003-03-17

Most people would agree that the word "honor" is a fairly abstract one that means different things to different people. That is, in essence, the biggest problem with Bill Bonanno's book. Although written in what seems to be straightforward English, the values he espouses and particularly the manner in which he espouses them are so impenetrable to the average reader that BOUND BY HONOR might as well be written in Sanskrit.

Part autobiography, part history, part memoir and part apologia, BOUND BY HONOR is Salvatore "Bill" Bonanno's personal record of growing up inside one of New York's Five Families. Bill Bonanno was the first of the Mafiosi to go public with his written reminiscences, being the subject of this book and Gay Talese's HONOR THY FATHER which is also recommended.

As autobiography, BOUND BY HONOR is engrossing, although it is clear almost from the outset that Bonanno is not a reflective man able to step outside himself and evaluate his life with any real objectivity. The truth is that Bonanno is more comfortable with the concept of living in eighteenth century Sicily than twentieth century America, and apparently internalized and romanticized the values of the Sicilian Vespers without questioning them. Bonanno speaks well of "family," "honor," and "pride," and deplores their erosion in the United States, speaks robustly of "our world," but never remarks on the inherent contradictions of internecine gangland warfare which pitted brother against brother, literally, too often ending in death.

Bonanno handles his history fairly well, although to hear him tell it, the Bonanno Family was the most powerful, most well organized, and most effective of the Five Families (other authors would dispute this hotly). He claims that his father, Joseph Bonanno was the inspiration for "The Godfather," Vito Corleone and that he himself was the inspiration for Michael Corleone. (This reader at least saw in his actions more of Sonny Corleone.) He also spends much of the earlier portion of the book drawing parallels between his father and Joseph Kennedy, and himself and JFK. Bonanno utterly misses the irony in comparing even Joseph Bonanno the Mafioso to the base, amoral, manipulating and serpentine senior Kennedy, never recognizing that that such a comparison is no honor to his own father.

As memoir, Bonanno is careful to move deftly around self-incriminating facts and circumstances. Since there is no objectivity between these covers, there is no way of assessing whether he has altered the facts to fit his view, but that is a virtual certainty. He attempts to minimalize the urban "Banana War" of the mid-1960s, reporting that little violence actually occurred, but he is unable to explain away (nor does he try to explain) the deep schisms in the Bonanno Family which led to this conflict. He denies and ignores the Bonanno Family's documented involvement in the drug trade. He describes the ill-fated Commission meeting at Apalachin (broken up by the local police) as a comedy of errors, but he cannot ignore the long repercussions of that day in 1957. Vice, illegal gambling, and other illicit activities are described as of minor importance to the Family and of no real harm to the community. Bonanno, however, is indefatigable in recalling his involvement with every subpoena, every grand jury, every hearing, every wiretap, and every government-machinated attempt to discredit the Families. His sense of outrage at having to do prison time for credit card fraud is manifest, though he glosses over most of his jail time and the reasons for it in a brief paragraph toward the close of the book.

In his apologia, Bonanno blames the downfall of the Families on attrition, essentially on the succession of "Americanized" leaders over the older Sicilians as they died off. In this, he may well be right. The stable nexus of "Family" unquestionably withered as the old Sicilian blood ties were replaced with alliances of convenience. He derides a rat like Valachi and a histrionic Don like Gotti with venom, pointing out that the "Dapper Don" ruled his Family for mere years not decades. More to the point, Bonanno sees the downfall of "his world" not as the result of vast societal changes in the 1960s and 1970s, but as the result, ultimately, of a single act, the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He posits that it was one of Sam Giancana's crew, Jimmy Roselli, who was the triggerman in Dallas. Since Roselli is dead and there is no corroboration available, Bonanno ends his book, Sphinxlike, with an intriguing, but essentially unanswerable riddle.

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Bound By Honor, A Mafioso's Story
Bill Bonanno
Manufacturer: New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999
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Bound By Honor: a Mafioso's Story
Bill Bonanno
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Bound by Honor: A Mafioso's Story.
BILL BONNANO
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Bound by Honor: A Mafioso's Story
Bill Bonanno
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Bound by Honor: A Mafioso's Story
Bill Bonanno
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ASIN: B000OTCUVY

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In the autumn of 1878 a band of Cheyenne Indians set out from Indian Territory, where they had been sent by the U.S. government, to return to their homeland in Yellowstone country. Mari Sandoz tells the saga of their heartbreaking fifteen-hundred-mile flight. Alan Boye provides an introduction to this Bison Books edition.

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Disappointing and disorganized.......2007-05-20

I was really disappointed by this book. I had read "Crazy Horse" by Sandoz and was impressed. But not here. If there was ever a book that needed editing, detailed maps, a good timeline, a list of characters explaining their relationships, dates in the texts, and footnotes, this was it. This book had one map that was as close to useless as possible and a brief (one page) timeline that was hard to follow. I read a 1992 University of Nebraska publication. The writing style is convoluted. Plus there are so many characters here involved in some many different incidents that it was painfully confusing to try to figure out what was happening, what had happened to each character, when it happened, where they had been, and what their relationships were. I can't figure out why I labored to finish it. Reading this was like slogging through quicksand. I am sure that the tragedy of what happened to the Cheyenne is a great story, deeply moving and revealing. I just can't believe this is a good telling of it. My recommendation is to find a more enjoyable and informative book on this topic.

Cheyenne Autumn Review.......2002-10-18

Cheyenne Autumn is a very educational book. I learned many new things about the Cheyenne and their way of life. It was so very disturbing for me to have to learn the actual hell these people were put through. I would have enjoyed this story much more if the author had not have introduced the characters in the novel before the story actually started. When the time came for a character to be introduced, I had already forgotten who they were. The only other major problem I found was that I was very confused with the transitions of paragraphs. This novel jumped between paragraphs quit frequently. I am the type of reader who prefers to know exactly what is going on and with who. When so many things are going on that I cannot comprehend them all and understand them completely, I get frustrated. This story takes a lot of time to read because you have to always be paying attention to every small detail. In order to read this book all of the way through, you have to want to read it and you have got to be patient. This is not the type of book someone should read because they have to. Read this book because you want to be educated on the Cheyenne and their way of life. If this is your desire in reading this book, then you will enjoy it very much.

Jamie's Cheyenne Auntumn Reviem.......2002-10-16

Cheyenne Autumn is a very educational book. I learned many new things about the Cheyenne and their way of life. It was so very disturbing for me to have to learn the actual hell these people were put through. I would have enjoyed this story much more if the author had not have introduced the characters in the novel before the story actually started. When the time came for a character to be introduced, I had already forgot who they were. The only other major problem I found was that I was very confused with the transitions of paragraphs. This novel jumped time periods between paragraphs quit frequently. I am the type of reader who prefers to know exactly what is going on and with who. When so many things are going on that I can't comprehend them all and understand them completely, I get frustrated. This story takes a lot of time to read because you have to read it slow. In order to read this book all of the way through, you have to want to read it and you have got to be patient. This is not the type of book someone should read because they have to. Read this book because you wanted to be educated on the Cheyenne and their way of life. If this is your desire in reading this book, then you will enjoy it very much.

Cheyenne Autumn.......2002-07-21

Documents the flight of the Cheyenne from the Indian Territory in Oklahoma back to their home in the north. The Cheyenne were promised that they could leave and then chased like escaped prisoners when they did leave. Time after time they survived seemingly insurmountable odds, but not without loss. I believe that the Cheyenne who lived this story -- Little Wolf and others -- would be happy to know that they were remembered with this book.

Heartbreaking, yet uplifting........2001-02-05

Mari Sandoz, one of the greatest American writers, amazed me once again in Cheyenne Autumn. A heartbreaking story of injustice and cruelty, Sandoz brings out the heart of the people through vivid imagery and insights that will make you feel you are on the trail with the Cheyenne.

Sandoz sees through the heart, and in this remarkable book takes the reader back in time. The book does not simply recount a tragic story, but rather reveals a people's life and their struggle to regain it. I highly recommend this book to anyone concerned with the human condition.

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Leaves Of Autumn: Cheyenne Indians End Their Domination Of The Kansas Plains With An Attack On Settlers In Lincoln County
James, I. McArthur
Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1425954421

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A young man interested in the massacre of ten settlers by Cheyenne Indians in Central Kansas in 1869, discovers Old Joe, a grizzled, old-timer who seems to know about the raid. Old Joe tells him about the incidents leading up to the attack - the Sand Creek Massacre, Roman Nose's famous war bonnet, Forsyth's Scouts, the early pioneers in Lincoln County and much more, leading the man to wonder how Old Joe seems to know so much about those days that occurred 140 years ago. The story that unfolds is an exciting, factual account of the early settlers moving into Lincoln County, the Cheyenne Indians struggling to hold on to their sacred hunting grounds and the U.S. Cavalry trying to protect the pioneers, stage lines and railroad working parties.

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An American Epic Cheyenne Autumn

Manufacturer: Avon Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0380392550

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CheyenneIndians Native Americans

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Cheyenne Autumn
Mari Sandoz
Manufacturer: Avon, 1971
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000LQ6GHE

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Cheyenne Autumn
Mari Sandoz
Manufacturer: Avon Books
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Cheyenne Autumn
Mari Sandoz
Manufacturer: Avon Books
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Cheyenne Autumn
Mari Sandoz
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Western story based on oral histories of American Indians rebelling against the reservation system. Developed into a John Ford motion picture.

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Cheyenne Autumn
Mari Sandoz
Manufacturer: HASTINGS HOUSE
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Cheyenne Autumn
Mari Sandoz
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Cheyenne Autumn

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QUANTUM PHYSUCKS

Dr. Quantum Presents

user,s guide to your universe

Insufferable.

A useful entry-level compilation.

Dr. Quantum Presents: A User's Guide To Your Universe
Fred Alan Wolf
Manufacturer: Sounds True
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ASIN: 1591793483

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In this Audio Learning Set, Dr. Fred Alan Wolf takes the listener on a stirring intellectual ride through the realms of human consciousness and its relationship to quantum physics. He espouses his theories on the universe, relativity, quantum mechanics, and much more.

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QUANTUM PHYSUCKS.......2007-01-29

If you saw "What the Bleep do we Know", you may be tempted to drop a hefty sum on these CD's. Before you do, consider what you liked about the movie. If you were into the Quantum Physics part of it (the "science"), don't waste your money. If you liked the meta-physical/spiritual parts of the movie, this is for you. These CD's, despite the subtitle, have a very tenuous link to any science. Most of them are about Dr. Wolf being a dirty old man, hitting on a borderline illegal young girl, and trying to sell you on Shamanism and the Kabalism. Plainly speaking, I thought the program sucked. I only gave it two stars instead of one because at various moments throughout his many, many extended tangents, there is actually a nugget of sensible clarity to think about. But those nuggets are few and far between. 2 of the 6 discs are devoted to explaining some Jewish alphabet and the symbolism of every letter. 1 cd is his story about trying to get some young girl in bed while he's stoned, and the other 3 cd's are him repeating every sentence he says about 13 different ways, or going on a tangent that he never brings to a conclusion. It must have taken MILES of movie-reel footage for the "What the Bleep..." people to get his few great lines of insight for the movie. He really comes off as a crack-pot on these CD's. But that's just my opinion--for a much more insightful, interesting, and scientific look at the Quantum universe, try Brian Greene's "The Fabric of the Universe" audio book, or Stephen Hawking's book, "The Theory of Everything".

Dr. Quantum Presents.......2006-11-10

This is a very informative narrative on 6 CDs. I would have liked for a more picture narrative ie; at least One DVD. I enjoy Fred Alan Wolf very much. He was excellent in "What the Bleep". His 6 CD User's Guide to Your Universe is very good information and it is also entertaining. Really 4 1/2 stars. Stephen Luton

user,s guide to your universe.......2006-11-05

it will definetly get you to rethink how you or we were taught to think.it will help you to free up your mind from all the trash we have been fed all these years.

Insufferable........2006-10-16

The ridiculous accents and other histrionics detract to the extent that you can't even follow the subject matter. Don't waste your time trying.

A useful entry-level compilation........2005-07-16

I was drawn to Dr. Wolf's work after hearing a theory about alchemy and astrology being the original sciences given to humanity. Although I found his book 'Matter into Feeling' only an average read, I was excited to see this six volume audio series by Dr Quantum.

I'm only a novice when it comes to quantum science so my expectations are not that high, and I found the audio series to be a useful entry level introduction that I would happily play to my kids as well.

I can understand someone of more advanced knowledge feeling perhaps frustrated and a little short changed by the series. It is advertised as a learning guide, so I assumed it is pitched at a beginner level, and it is.

In terms of value for money, and where it pitches itself, its worth three stars - maybe another half. As with 'Matter Into Feeling" I was a little frustrated in terms of pinpointing the objective of this material. If you already have a broad and robust knowledge base of the mystery schools it might not be for you.

Trying to integrate Shamanism and western science is a pretty tough challenge and there are bound to be inconsistencies. You need to weigh these up against what else is available if your interest in this field is strong, before you part with your cash!

The impersonations are a little 'left field' and perhaps are not as elegant as they could be. But if you can put this in the context of Dr Wolf's pure enthusiasm hopefully it won't detract focus away from the underlying message.

Audio is a useful approach and given the subject matter you may need to be extra sure you want this, quite independently of any hype generated by Wolf's appearance on the movie 'What the Bleep'.

Regards,
Daniel John Hancock

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