Journey Without End: The Travels of John and Dianne Bishop & Family

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Real-life accounts from the pages of Sports Illustrated, these are stories of athletes who became role models off the playing field through their inspiring acts of charity and courage. Some of the heroes are household names, such as tennis star Arthur Ashe and baseball Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente. Others, like the high school football player who gave up a kidney to save his dying grandmother, are unknown outside their communities. Yet each story chronicles a heroism that goes beyond athletic feats.

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Documentary productions encompass remarkable representations of surprising realities. How do documentaries achieve their ends? What types of documentaries are there? What factors are implicated in their production? Such questions animate this engaging study. Documentary Screens provides a comprehensive and critical introduction to the formal features and histories of central categories of documentary film and television. Among the categories examined are autobiographical, indigenous and ethnographic documentary, compilation films, direct cinema and cinema verite and television documentary journalism. The book also considers recent so-called popular factual entertainment and the future of documentary film, television and new media. This provocative and accessible analysis situates wide-ranging examples from each category within the larger material forces which impact on documentary form and content. The important connection between form, content, and context explored in the book constitutes a new and lively "documentary studies" approach to documentary representation.

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A driving force behind the social revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, Hoffman inspired a generation to challenge the status quo. Meant as a practical guide for the aspiring hippie, Steal This Book captures Hoffman’s puckish tone and became a cult classic with over 200,000 copies sold. Outrageously illustrated by R. Crumb, it nevertheless conveys a serious message to all would-be revolutionaries: You don’t have to take it anymore. “All Power to the Imagination was his credo. Abbie was the best.” — Studs Terkel

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And today his followers are our politicians, teachers, professors, lawyers and corporate leaders........2007-08-28

Most people might not realize, but from the perspective of a new immigrant student, "Steal This Book" was a major catalyst for the downward trend evolution of what I saw as a honest, decent society to an ever growing corrupt society.

I came as a student from Europe in 1960 and was enthralled with the honesty, decency and total trust in other people's honesty and decency by the vast majority of Americans. It was amazing to see that people could leave their purses, wallets, cameras and other valuables on picnic tables while off to swim or hike, unlocked doors, keys in cars etc. Then, in the mid 60s, about the time Abbie Hoffman taught and published this book in which he encourages the hippy generation to start ripping off not only corporations and the government (which really is the people)but also take from regular citizens. And oh boy, did the hippy types take to that invitation. Suddenly campers and others found their trust stolen along with their valuables. It truly was the end of an era.

And today his followers are our politicians, teachers, professors, lawyers and corporate leaders.
Should we be surprised of the downhill trend that has been accelerating at dizzying speeds?

As I got ready to post this review I checked on what Amazon meant by "TAG" and with a chuckle I discovered their objection to "Tags which promote illegal or immoral conduct". I'd say Hoffman's book falls neatly into that category.

A Lesson Still Unlearned.......2007-08-27

This book is even more relevant today than it was in the time of Nixon when it was written. The fact that too few people read it explains how this country was able to be suckered by con-servative artists like Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush, along with their cronies in Saudi Arabia, Capitalist China, Silverado, Enron, Halliburton, etc.

Right Price On Time.......2007-03-20

All came as promised, Book was in perfect shap and was delivered as promised. AA+++

Great Buy!.......2007-01-10

First off, this is an epic book that i would suggest to everyone.
My order arrived without delay and was shipped in great condition. I am extremely happy with this purchase and shall buy from amazon again.

All schools should use this as a text book.......2006-08-03

This is a book with values and ideas that are necessary for an American to know. Freedom of speech is almost gone and this is the right of passage for many!

Steal This Book: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Facsimile Edition

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Steal This Book: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Facsimile Edition
Abbie; Haber, Izak; Cohen, Bert Hoffman
Manufacturer: Four Walls Eight Windows
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000KY4FC0

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BradyGames' GameCube/Game Boy Advance Secret Codes 2005, Volume 1 includes the following:

A collection of the best codes and cheats for the most popular games released for the GameCube and Game Boy Advance.

Secrets and codes are provided for the hottest games on the market including: Finding Nemo, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour, NBA Live 2004, Mega Man Battle Network 4, SpongeBob SquarePants: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards, and more!

Straties for uncovering secret characters, hidden levels, alternate costumes, and much more!

Secret codes give gamers the edge needed to get the most out of their games and increase replay value.

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Nothing much........2005-05-23

This book does not include much games, nor does each games have much secret. Example, it does not have any codes for GameCube's Pokemon Colosseum, which is a popular game. And for the Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen, it just tells you how to activate the Mistery Event, which is of not much use and most Pokemon FR/LG owner already knows.

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PHP 5 Objects, Patterns, Practice is a practical design and management book. It explains object-oriented programming in PHP 5, the latest version of PHP. This book explores the principles underlying design patterns (principally those patterns collected by the 'Gang of Four') and presents a range of patterns in a PHP context. This book also examines tools and practices that exist which underpin good software design, including unit testing, documentation, version control and automated build.

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Nice succinct treatment of PHP OOP.......2007-05-23

This book is a great theory book for intermediate to advanced PHP. It skips over beginning PHP syntax and dives straight into OOP. The book is divided into 3 main parts - Object-Oriented Programming, Design Patterns, and Practice.

The OOP part of the book is a thorough covering of OOP from a PHP angle. It spends a little time discussing procedural vs. OO code, but assumes the reader is already convinced of the merits of OOP. It covers all the most important PHP OO ground quickly, but still explains each part in good detail - from the basics of Classes, Objects, and Inheritance up to and including OO design decisions, Polymorphism, and UML. This part of the book is, IMO, worth the purchase price for the succinct yet thorough coverage of PHP-slanted Object-Oriented Programming.

Part 2 of the book is a bit more verbose, as the subject content demands. It introduces the idea of Design Patterns first and goes over some design pattern principles. Then it jumps into the low-level design patterns for handling objects and their relationships, and representing tasks as objects. The last chapter in this part is called "Enterprise Patterns" but it somehow fails to adequately cover the King of Compound Design Patterns - MVC. The "Enterprise Patterns" are instead a PHP translation of a few J2EE design patterns. While this part of the book is very useful for solid PHP programmers beginning to approach Design Patterns, it is theory-heavy and shouldn't be used as a reference point for implementation of the patterns.

The last part of the book covers some useful PHP tools like PEAR, phpDocumentor, CVS and Phing. While these are all good tools, I was disappointed not to see Subversion or PHPUnit covered in more detail.

Each part of the book could be read independently of the others. It is a great theory book, but its ad-hoc and highly-specific code examples make it less useful as a reference. It's easy-to-read and concise style through-out mean you can simply read thru it to quickly and easily learn the theory without a computer on-hand, which is very helpful, too.

Great resource.......2007-04-21

This is a great resource for learning the Object oriented aspects of PHP and how to use the various design patterns. I have learned a lot of useful information using this book.

Good place to start.......2007-03-10

Great book, I wish that there was a little more time spent on the first two sections (Patterns and Practice) as I am already familiar with and use the tools presented in the latter chapters. If you are new to working with PHP5 in a more serious development environment and want to expand your skills beyond just creating web pages then this book is worth a look.

good style, good information.......2006-11-10

i enjoyed reading the book and learned a lot though i consider myself as an expierenced php programmer. basic and advanced stuff together with a balanced mixture. patterns make programming complex software architectures easier.

very helpful book.......2006-07-18

This was the exact right book at the right time for me. I have been managing a php software project for the past 5 years and it's growing harder to deal with. I had started to make some haphazard use of design patterns, cvs, and pear already. It's hard to find time away from daily business pressures to improve one's practices, but this book brought together some very useful techniques and tools in a concise way. I've read patterns books for other languages, but having the examples in php with special attention to php 5's oo improvements made this one much more useful and quicker to absorb for me.

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Eldridge Cleaver was a complex man who inspired profound adulation, rage, and fear. Target Zero, which includes previously unpublished essays, short stories, letters, interviews, and poems, is the most significant collection of Cleavers work since his bestselling Soul on Ice. Ishmael Reed, the prize-winning author of Flight to Canada, raves: This excellent anthology is bound to add to our knowledge of one of the most fascinating personalities in American history. This edition will include a reading group guide featuring discussion points and a QA with the editor, Kathleen Cleaver.

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Lil Jim thought highly of this book.......2007-06-25

Was sent to a cousin in prison who thought highly of this book. He must like it. Glad I could find on Amazon. Thanks

Not an introduction but a strong place for further study.......2006-03-30

If this is your introduction to Cleaver buy Soul on Ice first. If you have read Soul on Ice then this is a good time to buy this book. This is a collection of writings that expands Cleaver's life. When reading this you must keep it in the frame of reference of the time in which it was written. There are better written books on the black Muslim movement like James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time, what that book lacks is the insider's perspective. There are more gut twisting books on jail like Henry James Abbott's The Belly of the Beast, what this book lacks is a man's desire for a spiritual change. What Cleaver's writing has is what those other two novels are lacking: an insider's perspective and a deisre for spiritual and political change. This book is worth reading just for Cleaver's viewpoint. The writings are varied and extensive from the humorus to the dead serious. This book is a probing look at the life of one of the great American revolutionaries.

Target Zero, Eldridge Cleaver: A Life in Writing.(Book review) : An article from: Black Issues Book Review

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Target Zero, Eldridge Cleaver: A Life in Writing.(Book review) : An article from: Black Issues Book Review
Herb Boyd
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ASIN: B000GBEUBS
Release Date: 2006-06-14

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Title: Target Zero: A Life in Writing.(Book review)
Author: Herb Boyd
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Date: May 1, 2006
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Volume: 8 Issue: 3 Page: 41(2)

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Religious intolerance, so terrible and deadly in its recent manifestations, is nothing new. In fact, until after the eighteenth century, Christianity was perhaps the most intolerant of all the great world religions. How Christian Europe and the West went from this extreme to their present universal belief in religious toleration is the momentous story fully told for the first time in this timely and important book by a leading historian of early modern Europe.

Perez Zagorin takes readers to a time when both the Catholic Church and the main new Protestant denominations embraced a policy of endorsing religious persecution, coercing unity, and, with the state's help, mercilessly crushing dissent and heresy. This position had its roots in certain intellectual and religious traditions, which Zagorin traces before showing how out of the same traditions came the beginnings of pluralism in the West. Here we see how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century thinkers--writing from religious, theological, and philosophical perspectives--contributed far more than did political expediency or the growth of religious skepticism to advance the cause of toleration. Reading these thinkers--from Erasmus and Sir Thomas More to John Milton and John Locke, among others--Zagorin brings to light a common, if unexpected, thread: concern for the spiritual welfare of religion itself weighed more in the defense of toleration than did any secular or pragmatic arguments. His book--which ranges from England through the Netherlands, the post-1685 Huguenot Diaspora, and the American Colonies--also exposes a close connection between toleration and religious freedom.

A far-reaching and incisive discussion of the major writers, thinkers, and controversies responsible for the emergence of religious tolerance in Western society--from the Enlightenment through the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights--this original and richly nuanced work constitutes an essential chapter in the intellectual history of the modern world.

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Good Descriptions, Weak on Analysis; 3.5.......2005-11-27

This is a well written concise intellectual history of the idea of religious toleration. This is not a history of the development of toleration per se, which would require more political and social history. Zagorin is concerned particularly with exploring the role of early writers on this topic, most of whom are largely forgotten today. He begins with a sketch of the development of the doctrine of persecution in the early church and intolerance in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Ernest discussions of tolerance then become a major issue with great religious conflicts engendered by the Reformation. Zagorin then traces the development of the idea of tolerance in the writings of pioneering individuals like the French humanist scholar Castellio and a variety of Dutch intellectuals. Zagorin works his way through the 16th and 17th centuries concluding with the works of Locke and Bayle. This is very well done and parts are very informative. For example, Zagorin's concise description of Roger Williams' thinking about church-state separation is the best I've read. A recurrent theme is that these early advocates of toleration were driven by a conception that toleration was mandated by the essential message of Christianity and an appropriate reading of scripture.
While this is quite good, Zagorin doesn't really provide any analysis for the basis of the development of tolerance. Why, for example, were all the major writers on tolerance Protestants? Why Europe at this particular time? Why these particular individuals? There are some reasonable possible answers to these questions. All the early advocates of toleration appear to have been humanist scholars very interested in Classical literature. Surely, the encounter with a powerful non-Christian intellectual tradition and the knowledge of religious pluralism in the Classical world must have had some impact. Similarly, the Protestant emphasis on a personal relationship with God surely influenced the tolerationist emphasis on liberty of conscience. Finally, the practical experience of relatively tolerant societies like Holland, France under the Edict of Nantes, and parts of Switzerland much have had an impact.

An Exploration of an Important Topic...Especially Now.......2004-10-02

Today, Catholics and Protestants are overwhelmingly tolerant of people of other religious faiths and non-believers. They may advocate their values - as the secularists do as well - in the liberal marketplace of ideas and criticize those who oppose them, but in the western democracies and republics, religious differences are usually settled in a courthouse. This religious tolerance, enshrined in the American founding, was won at a tremendous price and in the era of the Reformation, both Catholics and Protestants persecuted those whose views they saw as heretical.
Today, the current battle between the liberal west and the forces of Islamic fanaticism has brought the issue of religious intolerance to the front pages of the worlds newspapers and the top of news broadcasts. So, it is a timely subject for a book like the one Perez Zagorn has written. Historically, Islam had a tradition of tolerance for Christians and Jews who were known as "people of the book" because of their shared biblical heritage, but Sayyid Qutb and other radical Islamic thinkers have turned this idea on its head and now seek to convert or exterminate them.
Zagorin takes readers back to a time when the churches of the west dedicated themselves to crushing all dissent and then introduces the reader to early advocates of tolerance who found the seeds of a more tolerant and pluralistic philosophy in the great religious texts and tradition. It was these deep philosophical thinkers -Erasmus, Sir Thomas More, John Locke - who advanced the notion that challenge and pluralism was actually good for their religions, not simply an effective political policy than enhanced trade and diplomacy. The most important single figure in the book is Sebastian Castellio, an early advocate of pluralism and tolerance who dueled with the Protestant reformer John Calvin, the man who was largely responsible for the burning of Michael Servetus, the controversial doctor and theologian. Zagorin writes about the origins of religious tolerance in the Netherlands, which played a vital role in the founding of some of America's colonies and the growth of tolerance here. He concludes his book with chapters on religious tolerance in England and the figures of John Locke and Pierre Bayle. Much of the history that Zagorin writes of here has not been widely disseminated and his very readable account of the men and ideas that advanced tolerance and pluralism should be widely read

Questionable Thesis.......2004-01-01

Zagorin's thesis is that the key to the West's religious tolerance is the large body of theoretical/political/philosophical writings supporting tolerance -- writings that give the idea more heft, cultural significance, and endurance than it could have had without them. True enough, but in order to suggest this body of writings as the key to our heritage of tolerance, Zagorin explicitly downplays the significance of two other keys: 1) the spread of disbelief/skepticism, and 2) the fears, the political and economic instability, and the human tragedies created by religious wars. But the evidence he presents shows that these two were precisely what inspired the body of writings! Even Sebastian Castellio, Zagorin's "hero" in this book, speaks again and again about the obscurity and difficulty of the doctrines of baptism, predestination, and trinity, and how the difficulty leads to disbelief and therefore controversy and therefore pain and suffering. A pleasant but unimportant book.

How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West.(Book Review) : An article from: Church History

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How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West.(Book Review) : An article from: Church History
John Corrigan
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Title: How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West.(Book Review)
Author: John Corrigan
Publication: Church History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2005
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Volume: 74 Issue: 3 Page: 670(3)

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How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West.(Book Review) : An article from: The Historian

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How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West.(Book Review) : An article from: The Historian
Ben Lowe
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Release Date: 2005-09-03

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This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2005. The length of the article is 577 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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Author: Ben Lowe
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Date: June 22, 2005
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How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Church and State

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How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Church and State
Robert L. Perkins
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Church and State, published by J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State on September 22, 2004. The length of the article is 510 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: How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West.(Book Review)
Author: Robert L. Perkins
Publication: Journal of Church and State (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2004
Publisher: J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State
Volume: 46 Issue: 4 Page: 896(2)

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The rocky path to Christian tolerance.(HOW THE IDEA OF RELIGIOUS TOLERATION CAME TO THE WEST )(Book Review): An article from: National Catholic Reporter

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The rocky path to Christian tolerance.(HOW THE IDEA OF RELIGIOUS TOLERATION CAME TO THE WEST )(Book Review): An article from: National Catholic Reporter
Darrell Turner
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This digital document is an article from National Catholic Reporter, published by Thomson Gale on February 10, 2006. The length of the article is 874 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: The rocky path to Christian tolerance.(HOW THE IDEA OF RELIGIOUS TOLERATION CAME TO THE WEST )(Book Review)
Author: Darrell Turner
Publication: National Catholic Reporter (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 10, 2006
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Volume: 42 Issue: 15 Page: 8a(1)

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Have you ever wondered... How many sheets of paper can be produced from a single tree? Why do FM radio stations end in an odd number? What causes a sonic boom? Where is the world's fastest computer located?

If you've ever scratched your head and thought, why?," you'll love How Much Does the Earth Weigh? With more than 100 of the most popular questions culled from the intriguing "Question of the Day" segment of HowStuffWorks.com, this fun book answers questions you never even thought to ask.

Written in Marshall Brain's award-winning style, this book explains in language you can understand the complexities behind some of the world's imponderables. You'll never look at a light socket, gas pump, or Web page the same way again!

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A number of errors, alas.......2006-06-02

This book is fun reading, especially if you have a few minutes to spare in the smallest room in your house. At the risk of sounding picky, I do have to point out that there are some obvious errors. For example: Why do US FM station frequencies always end in an odd number? The authors claim that it's just a whim that all the FM spectrum slices (0.2 MHz each) "start on odd number boundaries". But this would make the FM band extend from 88.1 to 108.1: wrong!

The true explanation is much simpler. The FM part of the spectrum extends from 88 to 108 MHz. The 0.2 MHz slices actually start on even boundaries, as you would expect: the lowest slice is from 88.0 to 88.2. A station on this slice has frequency 88.1, the CENTER (unmodulated) frequency of the slice, not the start. The last slice, of course, is from 107.8 to 108.0, with nominal frequency 107.9.

Now I know!.......2001-12-20

Your interest in this book will depend upon how curious you are about the world around you. The people at HowStuffWorks have returned with another tome of difficult questions answered in an approachable way. (The only caveat is that the explanation does not always answer all parts of the question.)

It includes descriptions of how Caller ID works, how much "all the money in the world" is, as well as the immortal "Why is the sky blue," ending on the ambitious titular question.

This is an ideal bedside (or lav-side) book and if you are interested in trivia or how the world works, I recommend it without reservation.

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Citizens concerned about the environment are taking up the call for a new, sustainable lifestyle. Lessons from Nature tells us what sustainability really is, and how we can achieve it. Daniel Chiras brings the concept of sustainability to life, defining it in a variety of contexts - economic, biological, political, and ethical - and exploring creative, practical ways to apply the principles of sustainability to nearly all aspects of modern life.

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