I Know That Name!: The People Behind Canada's Best Known Brand Names from Elizabeth Arden to Walter Zeller

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Every day Canadians buy groceries at Sobey's, develop film at Black's, or grab a coffee at Tim Horton's without giving it a second thought. These brands are in our lives and in the public eye. We're familiar with the names, but what do we really know about the people who lie behind them? I Know That Name! will answer these questions for you. It's full of fun facts, intriguing trivia, and engrossing explorations of more than one hundred Canadian men and women who beat the odds to become household names, including Timothy Eaton, Laura Secord, and J.L. Kraft.

Customer Reviews:

for trivia nuts!.......2005-11-20

Rebeccasreads recommends I KNOW THAT NAME! for every trivia buff, throne & den/game room, giving glimpses of how companies started, flourished, were gobbled up by bigger ones, or fended off takeovers to continue toward modernday prosperity.

I KNOW THAT NAME! has lots of photos to illustrate this collection of histories about ordinary people, some Canadian born, others immigrants, with a few just passing through: all, however, made their mark on a nation & its culture -- from shaving cream to publishing houses, cough drops to body builders, distilleries & breweries to moving companies, film makers to musical instruments, toys to washing machines, hats to construction, glasses to razors, ladies' wear to fake meat products, advertising to flour, business forms to farm equipment, & on it goes.

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Carl Furillos of the famed "Boys of Summer," for the Brooklyn Dodgers, the most immortal team in history. Furillo had it all including the best arm in the ML during his time, what evil discredited him and ruined his life and career??

Customer Reviews:

Disappointing for a Furillo fan!.......2003-06-14

As a youth, I enjoyed watching Carl Furillo play out the last years of his career in L.A., albiet after his salad days in Brooklyn. He was still fun to watch and "Scoonj" contributed to the Dodgers winning the World Series over the Chicago White Sox in 1959.

But this very short book is not a winner. Furillo's baseball career is completely glossed over. Much of the middle part of the book is a poorly researched diatribe on how Furillo was supposedly wronged by big baseball and Walter O'Malley. He may have been, but there's little here to prove it but a few opinions.

The second part of the book about the star's family life after baseball is a bit more interesting. Furillo's contribution to baseball is a story worth telling in more depth, with greater accuracy and more attention paid to detail.

The editing, punctuation, spelling, style, and story flow are poor -- Mr. Ninfo could have used some heavy editing by a professional. For instance, there's a photo of Furillo with Dodger first baseman Gil Hodges, but the book calls him G.L. Hodges.

It's annoying, too, that the author has little knowledge of baseball. His writing shows it time and time again.

Still, hats off to Mr. Ninfo for trying -- and getting interviews with Buzzie Bavasi, Sandy Koufax, Carl Erskine and Furillo family members. However, he could have done so much more with the material. This book is amateurish and isn't up to Amazon.com's usual quality standards.

Time Well Spent.......2003-05-24

Carl Furillo was a much maligned individual. Finally this author has told his story with absolute truth and vigor, pulling NO punches! Sadly, just as the book depicts, in great detail, those individuals that dragged Furillo's name through the mud, even though some of them are no longer with us, those that are, are still at work trying to keep the myth of Furillo being a " bad " boy still alive; as is evidenced by certain reviews! This book is controversial for sure, but it lets the reader know, just what can happen to an individual when the " powers " in sports seek revenge! I loved this book, and consider it the best and most truthful expose'/sports book ever written. With its vivid depicting of the players that were in the same situation as Furillo and the analogies that are made, it really boggles one's mind to realize just how far they went to ruin Carl Furillo! Surely, I hope, a film is on the horizon for this book!!! I recommend it to anyone that seeks truth and justice for Carl Furillo! I'd give it a hundred stars!!! The best money I ever spent, thanks Amazon!!!

An Interesting Story, But Badly Told.......2003-05-07

This may be the worst sports book ever written. The writing is so bad that it's unreadable--full of misspellings, weird punctuation, grammatical errors and just plain awful prose.

After trying to get through a few pages, I began to wonder how writing this dreadful could have passed muster with even the most lenient copy editor. A few minutes of Internet research disclosed that the book is the product of a vanity press, which explains everything. A vanity press will publish ANYTHING, with no editorial judgment or copy editing, provided the author is willing to pay for the privilege of seeing his work in print.

What a shame that a terrific ballplayer like Carl Furillo, who has been given short shrift by other sportswriters, should have his story so badly told. Furillo, a rifle-armed right-fielder, enjoyed a successful although not brilliant 15-year career with the Brooklyn Dodgers, beginning in 1946. That career ended angrily and abruptly when Furillo was dropped by the Dodgers while suffering from an injury. Furillo hired a lawyer and tried to get himself reinstated, or at least obtain the remainder of the year's salary his contract called for. The conflict escalated and a furious Furillo threatened to sue the baseball establishment. The outcome was that Furillo never held another job in Major League Baseball. He worked at various things, including construction and as a night watchman, until his death at age 66 in 1989.

Furillo's story is a dramatic and interesting one, but it deserves to be told in a more thorough and coherent way than it's told in this book. I must emphasize again: the writing is so terrible that this book would get an F as a high school term paper!

I give the author credit for one thing, however--thanks to his connections with the Furillo family he managed to wrangle an interview with...SANDY KOUFAX! (Eat your heart out, Jane Leavy.)

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The leading authority on American film is back with the latest edition of his "indispensable" (New York Daily News) movie and video guide. Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 2003 is the best, biggest, and most up-to-date of its kind. The comprehensive 2003 guide includes:

€ Capsule reviews of nearly 19,000 films, including more than 300 new entries
€ More than 5,000 listing of films available on DVD and 8,000+ laserdisc listings
€ Easy-to-read symbols indicating availability of more than 14,000 films on video
€ Notes on widescreen films that are best viewed in letterbox format
€ Write-ups on every film series
€ A revised index of leading actors and actresses
€ An updated list of mail-order sources for renting and buying videocassettes and DVDs
€ Leonard Maltin's exclusive list of the best family films of all time

...and much, much more.

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"This specialized eBook publication allows the Reader software user to rapidly look up the titles of Movies, or names of Stars, using the ""Look Up Definition"" feature either within the book, or from any other Microsoft LIT book. The movie guide that has been a staple for decades and has made Leonard Maltin a household name is back with all the essential information you could want-completely updated, and bigger and better than ever... .More than 6,000 DVD titles .More than 300 new videos .Nearly 19,000 capsule reviews .Completely updated index of leading stars .Ratings, running times, widescreen info, and much more .PLUS a new feature this year: ""50 Movies You Really Ought to See"" "

Customer Reviews:

a major mistake.......2006-02-05

I must protest that in Maltin's 2004 movie and video book, Maltin calls the Gary Cooper character a "mercenary" in the movie "For Whom the Bells Tolls". How could anyone make such a dumb mistake?

It's either this or Halliwell.......2004-12-08

I have not found a single review in this book that I could passionately disagree with. There are some controversial decisions in here (Donnie Darko and Memento have a formidible cult fan-base, but recieve reviews that are not terribly flattering); but if you really did want to see these films, why would you be listening to someone else's opinions? Basically, if you are going to review this book, compare it to the other review books on offer-Leonard Maltin's is much more comprehensive and helpful than any I know of, especially Halliwell's Film Guide, which I recommend never looking at, if you can help it.

Not as bad as all that.......2004-08-18

OK. I've installed this on my ipaq 3670. It opens fine. It works fine. It's installed on my CF card. Yes, it's slow -- but it's a 4 MB book (that's big). I can wait a little bit.

It didn't cause my pocket pc to crash. It didn't cause me to do a hard reset.

It's alot better than the e edition of Maltin's 2003 film guide. The 2003 version did not have the "Lookup Definition" section on the cover page.

Yes, you find the film by "looking up" the definition, but so what? Without this feature (as in the 2003 edition), it really doesn't work. But this 2004 edition DOES WORK. So what if you have to look up "Sting, The"? I can adapt. As for activating the MS Reader, you have to do that once, and you have to do it if you are going to read any copyrighted MS Reader book. It's really not that hard.

I'm really sorry the other guy had so many problems, but I'm not having them. Maybe you need to have a pocket pc with at least 64 MB RAM and a decent amount of memory free to operate it. Also, make sure you install the MS reader into your RAM, but install the ebook on an external memory card.

Good luck

Very, very poor.......2004-07-12

I sometimes cycle through this guide for a laugh. Maltin is a horrible film critic and a total historian - basically meaning that any film predating 1960 MUST be given 4/4 (unless it's really mediocre which, according to him, is rare). However he didn't hesitate to give BATMAN AND ROBIN 2.5/4 and TAXI DRIVER 2/4.

He also gave THE BLADE MASTER, one of the worst films ever created, 0.5/4, yet he's given some truly decent films "turkeys."

I'd rather read a video guide by Ebert because unlike Maltin, Ebert doesn't judge different films of different genres of various years against each other. He's pretty fair. Maltin is not.

Only for reference...and not even great at that.......2004-06-17

Leonard Maltin, unfortunately, is apparently held in high esteem by the DVD makers. His inane commentaries have shown up on everything from Disney's Donald Duck DVD's to the Little Rascals DVD's to the Marx Brothers' DVD's. Unfortunately, he is the type of guy that is an apologist for any cultural references resulting from a certain era in cinema. The kind of guy that has to be PC about everything.

On the same side of the coin, as shown in his video guides...he praises some of the inane tripe currently coming out of Hollywood, while bashing some of the classics of earlier years....probably because they aren't PC enough.

His book is filled with comments that show his real lack of perspective on history. And not only is he not a good historian, he needs some help with alphabetizing the movies, as well. What a pain trying to locate a movie using his system ["often" comes after "of a", but before "of the"].

He picks and chooses the actors he lists in his index...and some strange choices there are.

And, additionally....while he lists what is available on DVD...he DOESN'T indicate screen ratios, OAR's, pan & scans, etc, making the indicator rather useless for the TRUE movie fan.

My recommendation....stick with Martin/Porter or Moviehound. While you may not always agree with them, their comments aren't near as insipid and PC, and you'll be able to actually find a movie without having to interpret a hole new way of alphabetizing.

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Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 2003
Leonard Maltin
Manufacturer: Tandem Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: School & Library Binding
ASIN: 0613647424

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"The movie guide that has become a staple for decades and has made Maltin a household name is back-completely updated, and bigger and better than ever. This latest edition features: More than 3,000 DVD titles More than 300 new videos More than 20,000 total capsule reviews Updated star index Ratings and running times and much more!"

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"A superb accomplishment that assembles lively, spirited writing about women, some well-known and others less so, who made a difference in the way we live our lives today."
—The Journal of American History

"For too long, cultural historians of the Sixties have marginalized women, and women's historians of that period have privileged the political over the cultural. At last, Lauri Umansky and Avital Bloch have had the good sense to bring together women's history and cultural history in order to advance a gendered understanding of the cultural revolution of the Sixties. Through the lives of women as varied as folksinger Joan Baez, poet Sonia Sanchez, and artist Judy Chicago, Impossible to Hold reveals the centrality of women to the culture of the Sixties, and the significance of the cultural to women."
—Alice Echols, Professor of English, USC, and author of Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin

"By emphasizing community, inclusivity, andthe political dimensions of cultural change, the women in this voulme forged and fostered an important set of alternatives to the dominant culture...As a result, these artists helped shift the mixed-gender 'mainstream' by shaping countercultural trends and visions. They may have been 'impossible' to restrain, but the contributions they made to American culture and life were lasting and concrete."
—H-Net

"Too often we think that the women's movement burst onto the sixties scene late in the decade. Avital Bloch and Lauri Umansky have assembled a wonderful and varied set of essays to revise that notion. Here are women from throughout the era, staking their claims to central roles in American culture and, by their words and actions, demonstrating the centrality of thefemale experience to that culture. The array of subjects includes many names we have known—Joan Baez, Billie Jean King, Diana Ross, Yoko Ono, Jane Fonda—as well as many we will know now, because of this important and compelling collection."
—Alexander Bloom, author of Takin' It to the Streets and Long Time Gone: Sixties America Then and Now

"One of the strongest aspects of this book is that it ignores the usual female suspects in discussions of the sixties. It also focuses on women and the culture of the sixties instead of feminism during the sixties. Almost none of the women profiled in the text self-identified as feminists, yet their cultural contributions helped make a huge impact for women of future generations."
— Altar Magazine

"The 1960s continues to resonate as an era of great interest, and this collection of articles...provides an exceptional contribution to the existing literature....This is indeed a collection worthy of attention."
—CHOICE

With Jackie in a pill-box hat and Marilyn crooning to the president, the 1960s opened with women hovering at the fringes of the public imagination—and ended with a feminist movement that outpaced anything NASA could concoct. A compelling story, but did it really happen that way?

Unlike many accounts of the era, Impossible to Hold revels in the complexities of female identity and American culture. The collection's sixteen original essays move beyond conventional discussions of hippie chicks and Weatherwomen to examine the diverse lives of women who helped to shape religion, sports, literature, and music, among other aspects of the cultural hodgepodge known as the sixties.

From familiar names like Yoko Ono, Carole King, and Joan Baez to lesser-known figures like Anita Caspary and Barbara Deming, the women revealed in Impossible to Hold represent a variety of points on the celebrity and feminist spectrums. The book traces women who sought to break into "male" fields, women whose personae and work link the radical sixties to earlier cultural traditions, and those who consciously confronted power structures and demanded change. Separately and together, their cultural work informed the sixties and their biographies offer a lucid and complex picture of that proverbial "long decade."

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This book delves into history to unearth the aesthetics, significance and the meaning attached to dance as a socio-cultural phenomenon among the Yoruba ethnic group of modern Nigeria.

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JavaServer Faces (JSF) is quickly emerging as the leading solution for rapid user interface development in Java-based server-side applications. Now, Core JavaServer™ Faces–the #1 guide to JSF–has been thoroughly updated in this second edition, covering the latest feature enhancements, the powerful Ajax development techniques, and open source innovations that make JSF even more valuable.

Authors David Geary and Cay Horstmann delve into all facets of JSF 1.2 development, offering systematic best practices for building robust applications, minimizing handcoding, and maximizing productivity. Drawing on unsurpassed insider knowledge of the Java platform, they present solutions, hints, tips, and “how-tos” for writing superior JSF 1.2 production code, even if you’re new to JSF, JavaServer Pages™, or servlets.

The second edition’s extensive new coverage includes: JSF 1.2’s improved alignment with the broader Java EE 5 platform; enhancements to the JSF APIs; controlling Web flow with Shale; and using Facelets to replace JSP with XHTML markup. The authors also introduce Ajax development with JSF–from real-time validation and Direct Web Remoting to wrapping Ajax in JSF components and using the popular Ajax4jsf framework.

This book will help you

Automate low-level details and eliminate unnecessary complexity in server-side development
Discover JSF best practices, ranging from effective UI design and style sheets to internationalization
Use JSF with Tiles to build consistent, reusable user interfaces
Leverage external services such as databases, LDAP directories, authentication/authorization, and Web services
Use JBoss Seam to greatly simplify development of database-backed applications
Implement custom components, converters, and validators
Master the JSF 1.2 tag libararies, and extend JSF with additional tag libraries

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: Managed Beans
Chapter 3: Navigation
Chapter 4: Standard JSF Tags
Chapter 5: Data Tables
Chapter 6: Conversion and Validation
Chapter 7: Event Handling
Chapter 8: Subviews and Tiles
Chapter 9: Custom Components, Converters, and Validators
Chapter 10: External Services
Chapter 11: Ajax
Chapter 12: Open Source
Chapter 13: How Do I . . .
Index

Customer Reviews:

The best but..........2007-08-04

Hi, this is the best book you can get.
But I hope in their future version:

1. There should be a new chapter called Managed Bean Environment or something like that. One managed bean cannot do much if it knows nothing about its environment. How to access other managed beans in scopes. How to access objects in scopes. How to access the parameters in the environment. We need to know how several managed beans communicate each other and communicate with their environment to complish a real project. We also need you to provide a concret example like in J2EE5 tutorial bookstore6. I am so pity you missing this crucial part.

2. There should be a new chapter called JSF and Enterprise Bean. This is an important issue to put JSF into a meaningful environment. JSF is for J2EE application. Managed bean need to link to session bean and session bean link to JPA. We need a such example how it works.

3. The chapter 8 to chapter 12 do not realy need to know for CORE JSF and therefore should be dropped to give book space for the above content.

4. In the chapter 5 Data Tables : Editing Table Cells. It is very inconvinient to click a checkbox to active editing mode. I suggest to remove all checkbox because in practise people will edit seveal cell content and click a save button. Also you do not need one inputText and one outputText for one cell. Remove outputText and add readonly in the inputText. Can you tell how to freez header when scroll a table?

5. There should be a chapter to talk about JSTL. It seems my request is out of the topic but it is not. JSTL is hard to stand out for an independent book. It will live with JSF. In real project, JSF is always mixed with JSTL to make a web page. We need to know when and how to use JSTL in a JSF page. I would say, the technique you learned from this book is not enough fro you to make a real web page.

Regards

A solid 'must have' reference for any serious library catering to Java programmers........2007-07-27

Java programmers will find essential this second updated edition CORE JAVASERVER FACES, which examines all elements of JSF 1.2 development and offers up a set of 'best practices' for automating functions, building consistent reusable user interfaces, and tweaking Java with JBoss Seam and custom components. There have been extensive updates and modifications to this edition, making it a solid 'must have' reference for any serious library catering to Java programmers.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

Great Book for JSF Beginner's.......2007-06-27

I was excited when I first purchased this book, but I think my expectations were a bit too high. The Book covers the basics of JSF with aesthetic elegance, but more advanced topic's are not covered in as much depth.

That is not to say, however, that they are not covered. The book touches upon things like JSF used along side open source frameworks; which is an excellent place to start for the developer looking at the current options available for Object Relational / JSF / Alternate View Technology integration (Shale, Facelets, Seam, etc.)

But I would have liked to have seen a more thorough explanation on custom component creation. The example given in the book, e.g. the creation of a custom spinner component, is something that is somewhat useless in actual production environments. Usually, if a custom component needs to be created, it involves much more complicated functionality; such as a custom 'dataTable' component.

Even an explanation on how to create an advanced custom renderer would have been appreciated, for example, how to create a custom renderer for the 'dataTable' component.

Nevertheless, the book was useful and informative in many ways that I did not expect. The 'How do I...' section is an interesting approach, that was invaluable to me on numerous occasions.

Thus, overall, I would recommend this book to beginner and intermediate JSF developers looking to utilize JSF technology in their development pipelines. Unfortunately, for the most advanced JSF topics, looking at JSF implementation source code, and JavaDoc's still remains the best way to learn these advanced topics.

Great Book.......2006-08-24

It's a great book, easy to understand, a lot of examples, could be used by people initiating on JSF, or like a reference book. It is not necessary any knowledge of servlets or JSP. Just install tomcat, jsdk a jsf lib and start to write yours first webapp!!

Excellent thick book on web application development with JSF.......2006-03-23

Reading the Amazon reviews I suspected this to be a good book. But how excellent it actually was, caught me by surprise.

You get introduced slowly. The authors do not even hesitate to make pedagogically motivated design shortcuts at the beginning and they comment what they will improve later on.
The code examples are complete. Though you rarely ever need all of it, it strongly helped me not to get lost in the later chapters.
The code quality is top notch with a slight taste of C. It just feels good to read the code and one learns for even completely different software contexts.
If you only want a thin book on JSF the first six chapters (270 pages) will do an excellent job on that too. In fact this would be even the better book.
The style is unpretentious and the intellectual muscle of the authors is just amazing.

Are there problems? Well I think yes, in the more advanced chapters. The authors are just too competent. The consequence: In the later chapters you learn how you could do much, and I mean really much more, than is directly covered by the JSF standard. This might be a life saver, if you really do have any of those specific problems. In a general purpose book this might encourage people to overstretch their own system.

This book focuses only on the development side of the issues. If you want to learn the visual or the usability part of web applications, you have to turn to other books.

In summary I do highly recommend this book to people interested in JSF, Web development and software in general.

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Core JavaServer Faces (Core Series)
Cay Horstmann David Geary
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Ptr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OIAOJU

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In Our Rightful Share, Aline Helg examines the issue of race in Cuban society, politics, and ideology during the island's transition from a Spanish colony to an independent state. She challenges Cuba's well-established myth of racial equality and shows that racism is deeply rooted in Cuban creole society.

Helg argues that despite Cuba's abolition of slavery in 1886 and its winning of independence in 1902, Afro-Cubans remained marginalized in all aspects of society. After the wars for independence, in which they fought en masse, Afro-Cubans demanded change politically by forming the first national black party in the Western Hemisphere. This challenge met with strong opposition from the white Cuban elite, culminating in the massacre of thousands of Afro-Cubans in 1912. The event effectively ended Afro-Cubans' political organization along racial lines, and Helg stresses that although some cultural elements of African origin were integrated into official Cuban culture, true racial equality has remained elusive.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent source for folks/scholars interested race and cuba.......1999-09-20

Aline Helg does an excellent job of outlining for her readers the conditions in Cuba, 1886-1912, which became the foundation for the rise and fall of the Partido Independiente de Color en Cuba. This organization, among the first Black parties in the new world, is a vital part of the historty of cuba as well as the history of africans in the americas. The book is written in a clear and concise form that makes it easy to grasp/follow and enjoyable, while simultaneously being highly informative. Helg's book is the answer for those interested in this segment of history and its implication on race in contemporary Cuba. It is the only answer for spanish-impaired folks who do not have access to Tomas Fernandez Robaina's El Negro en Cuba until it is translated. Enjoy the read, Prof. T.R.L. Patterson's students at SUNY Binghamton sure did.

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Western Civilization: A Breif History 5th ed........2005-09-30

I thought the sescription said "very good condition" or "like new", but there is excessive highlighting and pen marks in the beginning of the book.

Western Civilization.......2005-08-03

The description of this book was horrible. I thought I was ordering the actual textbook and instead received the workbook. Also, it wasn't even the workbook to the textbook that had been described on the site.

Western Civilization: A Brief History from the 1400s

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Western Civilization: A Brief History from the 1400s
Marvin Perry
Manufacturer: Not Avail
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Early Civilization | Ancient | History | Subjects | Books

ASIN: 061804423X

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Western Civilization: A Brief History: From the 1400s
Marvin Perry
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | World | History | Subjects | Books

Western | Europe | History | Subjects | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
ASIN: 0618884521

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Don't drink the water. Don't swim in it, fish in it, or even bathe in it. Rodney Barker's book, And the Waters Turned to Blood details the latest plague to visit our shores: Pfiesteria piscicida, the "cell from hell," an aquatic microorganism that causes sufferers to exhibit symptoms similar to Alzheimers or multiple sclerosis. As it follows the fortunes of Dr. JoAnn Burkholder, one of the first scientists to recognize the danger of Pfiesteria, Barker's book reads like a cross between science fiction and conspiracy theory: Dr. Burkholder discovers that excessive pollution in the rivers and coastal waters of the Southeastern United States causes a deadly microorganism to breed like crazy; state and federal government attempts to suppress the report.

An investigative reporter by training, Mr. Barker writes And the Waters Turned to Blood like a thriller, revealing pieces of the puzzle judiciously as he builds tension. Unlike in a literary thriller, however, there is no tidy ending to this story. Readers will be left with the disturbing knowledge that fish are still dying, fishermen are still getting sick, and the potential for disaster in this latest scourge is still unmeasured.

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Review of Mr. Rush's AP Environmental Science Class.......2007-01-02

This dramatic account of this toxic dinoflaggellate is factual and descriptive. The beginning is well-paced and keeps the reader's attention. However, toward the middle of the book the plot becomes repetitive and more politically based. It was frustrating for the reader to read all the processes of funding and the failures. The book informs the public of a topic that is kept secret by the government. The author researched the data well and presented the information in an interesting way including a cliff-hanger to end each chapter. Overall, this book is recommended for an interesting read into the danger that lurks the coastal waters of North Carolina.

Are you reading This??? im only 11 why does it matter what i think.......2006-02-28

This book was overall a good read, but the widespread exaggeration of the effects of the dinoflagellate became quite repetitive. I was impressed that the book was able to tie politics and environmental policies together. At times, the plot was mildly interesting when compared to other environmental books. The government policies, though, became very confusing at times and the romantic aspect of Dr. Joanne Burkholder's life was not sufficiently explained.

"And the Waters Turned Mediocre...".......2006-02-28

The sheer mediocrity of this novel is stunning. It seems to be split into two main parts. The first half of the book is about the actual investigating of the organism and is quite compelling. However, the second half of the book is about a poorly covered up conspiracy theory and is very repetetive. This is dry and is pretty boring. Therefore, the two halves balance each other out to make the novel mediocre. This book is very good, though, in showing the life and career of a scientist, so would be great for an aspiring scientist. It also reveals the state of the waters in North Carolina, a concern to any of the state's citizens.

Awesome Book for the Lay Scientist!.......2005-12-16

Picked this book up while at the pubic library with my family. The except about an "ancient life form" peaked my interest and I had to borrow it. It reads like a very practical novel with a roller coaster ride of excitement about Dr. Burkholder's discovery of this toxic ameoba. I was truly fascinated and couldn't put the book down. The science is broken down so that a lay person can grasp it and understand the importance of JoAnn's findings. Her trials and tribulations with back stabbing colleagues, NC bureacrats, and the dinoflagelate itelf are very interesting. Would highly recommend this book to anyone.

A True Life Horror Story!.......2005-10-10

I live in North Carolina and this is very scary. People are not being told about this very real danger that can do real damage to a persons health just from going in the water.

The fact that I still haven't heard anything about this in the news just makes it worse.

This is scary but the fact that our goverment keeps this type of information from us is even worse.

When you come to N.C., remember there is a monster in the water and it is as bad or worse then the shark in Jaws. Maybe it's time for the movie version. At least an update on the subject.

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And the Waters Turned to Blood
Rodney Barker
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000H8IOYO

And the Waters Turned to Blood. The ultimate biological threat.

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And the Waters Turned to Blood. The ultimate biological threat.
Rodney Barker
Manufacturer: Simon and Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J0XR6A

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Where the pavement ends.: An article from: The Geographical Review
Peter Goin
Manufacturer: American Geographical Society
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

General | Conservation | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0008DOWQ2
Release Date: 2005-07-31

Book Description

This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on October 1, 2002. The length of the article is 752 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.

Citation Details
Title: Where the pavement ends.
Author: Peter Goin
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2002
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 92 Issue: 4 Page: 545(10)

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