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Wonderfully deviant.......2003-05-18

My Standard Operating Procedure for reading Kaz's "Underworld" is to flip through until I read a page that makes me say out loud "Oh, my God! That's horrible!"
Then I put it away for a couple of days until the mood strikes me to flip through it once again.
Give copies to all your friends and family and watch with glee as they slowly realize you are not who they thought you were...

A Comic Masterpiece.......2003-04-28

Kaz, the master of the underground comic buisness, has made an incredible depiction of the underground life in cities. He satires drinking, drugs, sex and abuse with ease and makes you laugh at those things that you know you shouldn't. His characters are flawless symbols of evil and imperfection and the artistic look of the general book is amazing. A buy worth every penny.

kaz is one of the greats.......2001-10-27

Underworld is a hilariously nightmarish cartoon city where the denizens are a twisted mockery and amalgam of all the cartoons from gag strips of Yore. You will see somewhat familiar faces, skewed and distorted. Its everything that cartoons have ever been, without the limitations of staying within the safe confines of Cartoonyland...

The gags are just as corny as any Family Circus you've ever read, with a disturbing twist that makes the old jokes absolutely hilarious. Kaz knows comics. Kaz is comics. There is something truely upsetting yet oddly hysterical about reading a simple punchline like "heroin" that causes a bizarro Snuffy Smith to faint off camera.

Once you read Kaz's work, you will crave more...for any fan of reality and any enemy of King Features Syndicate.

Smoking Cat Rules.......1998-01-12

Funny! Surreal! If you let people tell you how you should live your life at least don't let them tell you what to read. Life is too short and Kaz's vignettes make note of that. His cartoons are one of a kind and in need of experiencing. Well, I have.

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Chockful of wit and wisdom, 1,001 Smiles is a colorfully illustrated compendium of all things happy. In this chunky anthology, the latest in our popular series, wry insights, age-old teachings, and a wealth of humorous offerings are organized by everyday topics such as creativity, change, love, and travel. Readers will find themselves smiling at both the absurdities of the world and their own foibles as simple truths are expressed in quirky ways, such as "There are only two lasting gifts you can give your children: One is roots, the other wings," or "If you have to borrow money, borrow it from a pessimist they never expect it back." An ideal gift for anyone feeling blue, 1,001 Smiles is sure to elicit a grin, even on the toughest day.

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Examines the many forms of cinematic badness over the past one hundred years, from Nosferatu to The Talented Mr. Ripley.

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Ali has been a player on the world stage for so long, it's hard to remember that before his metamorphosis into a cultural icon holding the Olympic flame aloft he was a cultural lightening rod. Hero to some, traitor to others, he managed to land powerful punches both in and out of the ring. What changed him from athlete to personality to a heavyweight of global reach? "At the core of the Ali story," Mike Marqusee reminds us, "is a young man who made daunting choices and stuck to them in the face of ghastly threats and glittering inducements." Redemption Song explores those choices in the context of the turbulent times in which they were made.

Ali and the '60s were a naturally synergistic fit. It was a time of great change, and Ali, the seeker, had remarkable access to the fomenters of that change. They, in turn, had a prime influence on his symbolic rebirth and reemergence. As Redemption Song recounts, the night the young Cassius Clay upset Sonny Liston for the title in 1964, he skipped the traditional post-fight party and headed straight for Miami's black ghetto where he met with Black Muslim leader Malcolm X, singer Sam Cooke, and the running back Jim Brown, an early advocate of black rights in sports. The next morning, announcing to the white world that "I'm free to be what I want" and "I don't have to be what you want me to be," he confirmed rumors about his conversion to Islam. Clay was dead; long live Ali.

The conversion to Islam was only one of Ali's "daunting choices." As Marqusee moves through the decade, he carefully traces Ali's choices to confront the establishment and stand as a symbol of civil rights and the anti-war effort; his relationships with Malcolm X, Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson, and Martin Luther King; and the importance of his travels to Africa. There's plenty of boxing too--Liston, Floyd Patterson, Joe Frazier, George Foreman; the ring, after all, was his arena. Marqusee, though, is more interested in how Ali expanded that arena to take in the kinds of fights that go beyond the ropes. It's a tall order, but Redemption Song fulfills it with solid reporting and worthy analysis. --Jeff Silverman

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New edition. A new afterword considers Ali and his legacy in light of the war on terror and new connotations of Islam and the West.

Is there a more characteristic figure of the 1960s than Muhammad Ali—playful and political, popular and non-conformist, defiant and triumphant? Mike Marqusee puts the great boxer back in his true historical context to explore a crucial moment at the crossroads of popular culture and mass resistance. He traces Ali's interaction with the evolving black liberation and anti-war movements, including his brief but fascinating liaison with Malcolm X, as well as his encounters with Martin Luther King, Jr. Marqusee's elegant and forceful narrative explores the origins and impact of Ali's dramatic public stands on race and the draft, and reinterprets the "Rumble in the Jungle," shedding new light on its triumph and tragedy. Above all, he imbues Ali's story with a long-neglected international dimension, revealing why Ali was embraced with such warmth by diverse peoples across the globe. This timely antidote to the apolitical celebration of Ali as "a great American" revisits the man and the period with a fresh eye, casting new light on both his courage and his confusions.

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A different take.......2007-02-08

Marqusee succeeds in putting Cassius Clay's transformation to Muhammah Ali in the rhythms and images of the times. An excellent cultural history.

Celebration of an amazing man.......2005-04-07

This is a fascinating book - looking at Ali in a historical, social and political context.

It is not a typical sporting biography - there is very little focus on boxing. This is not even a typical biography - Ali is the central character but there are many digressions - Malcolm X (and Elijah Mohammed), Martin Luther King, Paul Robeson, Jackie Robinson, Bob Dylan and Don King feature heavily. The real focus is on the social & political upheaval of the sixties.

This is also a reclamation project. The Ali who is now an almost universal hero is not the Ali that inspires Mike Marqusee. Marqusee loves the Ali who said "I will not be what you want me to be", the fascinating, flawed man - one of the most controversial, divisive but important men of the 1960s. The man who transcended his nationality and embraced the world, which in turn embraced him back. He wants to remind us what an extraordinary man he was. I think that he succeeds admirably.

This is not a hagiography - it is prepared to look Ali's flaws and contradictions directly in the eye. However, the book is fundamentally very sympathetic to Ali and the whole black power movement of the 1960s, particularly Malcolm X. This is not a problem, as Marqusee's politics never get in the way of the book.

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Blackxploitation redux.......2002-08-11

This is nothing less than the story of an African American man's struggle to define himself within the context of the 60's US black power movement exploited by a white Englishman. Mike Marqusee brings nothing new to the story of Muhamed Ali other than stilted prose and an uncritical eye. It fails as a book about boxing and is equally weak with respect to Ali's struggle with the white establishment of his day. Marqusee's attempt to embrace Ali's story serves only to water down the true struggle of an entire generation against the evils of institutional racism.

Better than the Movie.......2002-01-02

I'm not a boxing fan, but after seeing the recent "Ali" movie, I was inspired to take Mike Marqusee's "Redemption Song" off my bookshelf and read it. I got the book because I heard Marqusee last year in a radio interview about Ali and the Black Power movement of the sixties and I was very interested in the culture and politics that both shaped Ali and was influenced by him.

I found "Redemption Song" a powerful and well written book that gives so much more depth than the new movie. The depth of Marqusee's research and analysis made me realize that the Ali movie would have needed to be a trilogy in order to do justice the champ's life. Ali's defiance of racist draft policies could have been an entire movie in and of itself. While "Ali" movie focuses on Ali's defiance, Marqusee's book provides the context for Ali's anti-war stance. His description and analysis makes the movie's focus a mere footnote to this part of Ali's history. When Ali argued, "Man, I ain't got not quarrel with them Vietcong," he was taking a religious and political stance on a personal, cultural/racial, and class level. He was not only echoing the developing anti-war movement, but giving voice to it, even though he never sought to be a leader within the movement. He was in sync with civil rights activists like John Lewis who complained, "I don't see how President Johnson can send troops to Vietnam...to the Congo...to Africa and can't send troops to Selma, Alabama," [where the civil rights of Black people were systemically and violently denied civil rights on a daily basis.] He was in line with Martin L. King who boldly declared and preached that the war "morally and politically unjust." His refusal to participate in the bombing of thousands of innocent children and women in Vietnam and Cambodia was a part of many anti-war demonstrations in which Stokely Carmicheal described Selective Services as "white people sending black people to make war on yellow people in order to defend land they stole from red people."

Marqusee reminds us most in his book that boxing in this country was linked to issues of race and power representation. Thus, Black boxers and other sports figures like Jackie Robinson were measured, promoted, and criticized by how patriotic they were to the White power structure in this country. They were expected to be like Joe Louis who stood "as a role model--for white America, for the black middle class and for much of the left--by enlisting for military service in World War II," or an anti-communist like Robinson. But Ali becomes a bug in the system. Guided by Black nationalist ideology of the Nation of Islam and Malcolm X specifically, Ali rewrote the script for how Black sports figures were to behave. He proclaimed, "I'm free to be what I want." But as Marqusee points and shows, "he did not invent himself out nothing. In his search for personal freedom he was propelled and guided by a wide array of interacting social forces." This search and influence is the heart of Marqussee's book.

I would imagine there's much that Marqusee leaves out his book. And at times he seems too apologetic about Ali's break with Malcolm X, his relationship with the conservative tide of the Nation of Islam, and the inherent contradictions between his religious convictions and his views about marriage. Marqusee could have also provided specific references for his research. His bibliography is simply not enough.

Despite these criticism, "Redemption Song" is a much needed work to offset efforts to depoliticize Ali's past. Read it before or after you see the movie.

Viewing racial politics through Ali's journey.......2001-02-13

This book isn't so much about Ali as about Black radical politics of the 60's and 70's and the way Ali's public life reflected them. An excellent, thoughtful book that reads more like a monograph than a work of popular non-fiction (cf. David Remnick's "King of the World", a more accessible book with a different focus and scope). If you are interested in the Nation of Islam, the Black Panthers, the Black Power movement and the ways boxing historically has reflected the racial realities of its time, you will find this book engrossing and informative. If you are looking for a conventional "boxing book" (whatever that is), you will be disappointed.

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Only a few years into its popular use, the World Wide Web has already enabled thousands to set up online businesses that require a minimum of upkeep and maximum profits. The Unofficial Guide to Starting a Business Online is the cyber-entrepreneur's ultimate guide to every aspect of hanging out a shingle in the virtual world. Here's what readers get:

Step-by-step advice and key information on setting up shop online, from creating a Web site to marketing and advertising big on a shoestring budget
Addresses for hundreds of Web sites they can use as start-up references that would have taken hundreds of hours to track down alone
A rundown of the best businesses to start online, and advice for choosing the right one
Pointers on combining traditional selling techniques with Web-specific ones for the best of all possible plans!

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A new and updated edition of the successful guide to online entrepreneurship For anyone who wants to start an online business, this is the go-to guide. Covering all the basics for online entrepreneurs, it features illustrative examples, helpful resources, and answers to confusing questions. Fully updated, this new edition brings all the book's technical information up-to-date and features a large section dedicated to starting an eBay business, one of the fastest growing segments of the e-commerce revolution. Written by journalist and technophile Jason Rich, this practical guide explains almost everything a budding online entrepreneur needs to know about setting up an online business whether it's a brand-new business or an online extension of a bricks-and-mortar operation. Jason R. Rich (Foxboro, MA) is the author of nearly 30 books. A journalist for more than 15 years, he writes about careers, technology, and e-commerce, among other subjects.

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A start-up guide packed full of information for an online-based retail business!.......2006-12-13

This book provides step-by-step guidance in starting an online retail business. There is a ton of information crammed into this book which is divided into six sections and many chapters:

1. In Business, Preparation is Everything
2. Getting Your Business Online
3. An Internet Presence for Existing and New Businesses
4. Promoting Your Site
5. Improving and Analyzing Your Site
6. The Experts Speak

As someone who has read many books on virtual businesses, online presences, Internet marketing, and online retailing I could appreciate all that the author covers in this book. Unfortunately I doubt someone with my background is the intended audience for this book. I think someone with less knowledge on the subject would be the person to want to read this book. And such a person is probably going to be disappointed with it.

I found the book to emphasize online retail businesses to the exclusion of online service businesses. That's fine and dandy if the title of the book had specified that the material related to "Online Retail Businesses." There was a lot of talk devoted to shopping cart aspects of Web sites and to eBay topics. If I wanted to read about eBay, then I would have picked up an eBay book.

My favorite part of the book was where the author at page 96 told me about how to easily add shopping cart functionality to a Web site that I had built using Microsoft Frontpage. Supposedly there is an outfit called Richmedia Tech that provides help in doing that.

The slant on the type of business the author was talking about in his book showed itself particularly in Section 4 regarding how to promote your Web site. There was no mention of writing articles, giving seminars, or becoming a public speaker which are normal ways to promote a Web site that helps market services rather than products.

If you are planning to use eBay in your business in ANY way, then I highly recommend you get a copy of this book. It is a great supplement to any reading you do on the subject of eBay. However, if your business idea or existing business has no need for an online retail storefront, then skip this book. There are other books available that are more on point for you to read. 4 stars!

This book gave me some new ideas for my On-line business.......2004-01-24

I started my own business and have been selling books online for over 5 years (and doing very well thank you), and I also volunteer in my free time as an outplacement counselor for a local non-profit training facility, so I have had a little bit of experience in business; and I have to tell you after reading the dreadful reviews I picked up a copy of this book just for grins... not! This book has some really good ideas. True there is no magic bullet, but that's just it, this book gives good direction and if you have a half-way decent brain and some ambition you will do the rest. My biggest problem as an outplacment counselor (whose job it is to help people to go out there and look for a job) is motivating them. I give them the direction but they want the easy fix. This book will not give you an easy fix, but if you want some good solid ideas ... read this book.

Complete Waste.......2003-01-13

The only thing to be learned from this book is if you have a catchy title and access to bookshelf space, you can sell anything, even 414 pages of filler.

Among the pearls of wisdom is the advice that you can compare features of different computer brands by shopping at your local computer store. I'm not kidding!

I was so insulted by the banality of this book that I was moved to write this review.

Don't Buy It.......2003-01-10

I bought the book on the strength of the excerpts on the back. It is a waste of paper. The information is shallow an very dated. It does not provide any valuable information, even the rhetoric is thin and pale. The "trends" are old guesses from the DOTCOM era. AND the "money saving techniques" are stale. And I figured this out and I'm just starting a web business. Try TechTV's Starting an Online Business. It's FAR better. Better yet try multiple books and do some deep diving on the web. You know the 3rd 4th and 5th pages when you do a web search. Good Luck.

Read this book.You might be the next successful entrepreneur.......2002-07-23

I have read a few more books on this subject. All of them share many concepts. However each of these books add useful ideas of how to start an online business. I recommend to read not only this one but others like: "Starting an Online Business" by Frank Fiore, "Mompreneurs Online" by Patricia Cobe and "Making Money in Cyberspace" by Paul and Sarah Edwards. Do not stop only on one book, search other sources and you will have a better idea about Online Bunisness. This book have some chapters that will be very basic to some readers but the overall idea of this publication is worth to read it. You will find interviews with succesful e-commerce entrepreneurs. I loved the interviews with Chris Gwynn in Chapter 16 (founder and president of Fridgedoor.com) and Tim Brady and Paul Graham in Chapter 15 (Vice President of Production and Executive Producer of Yahoo Stores). Dont't miss this book! you might be the next successful e-entrepreneur...

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Legally and Logically Flawed.......2006-08-05

As its title suggests, this book's leitmotif is that peacemaking can succeed only if based on international law, and that Israel is responsible for the failure of the 2000 Camp David negotiations between itself and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) because its positions were inconsistent with international law. As Joel Singer of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLPs, wrote, the justification presented by Helmick (a Jesuit priest, who makes no claim to a legal education) for his theory is both legally and logically flawed.

He argues repeatedly that U.N. Security Council resolution 242 requires complete Israeli withdrawal to the 1949 armistice line, even though this resolution only requires withdrawal from occupied territories (but not all the territories), a wording long recognized as not requiring full Israeli withdrawal. This phrasing requires only that the two parties negotiate the location of a "secure and recognized" boundary, not necessarily the armistice line. In fact, the author himself, disregarding his main argument, proposes territorial changes in Israel's favor in the boundary in the Jerusalem area.

Helmick also preaches the idea that, to be consistent with international law, any final Israeli-Palestinian agreement must include an Israeli commitment to permit the Palestinian refugees to relocate to Israel in accordance with U.N. General Assembly resolution 194, while expressing the hope that this step will not lead to the destruction of Israel, because perhaps not all 3.5 million Palestinians that call themselves refugees will choose to immigrate to Israel. In making this argument, the author ignores the small fact that resolution 194 is not part of international law, that the two parties specifically based the Oslo agreements on U.N. Security Council resolution 242 (and its companion resolution 338) but not on resolution 194 (or any other General Assembly resolutions), and that the relocation of Palestinians to Israel is wholly inconsistent with the Oslo agreements that were intended to create two states, one Jewish and one Palestinian, rather than two Palestinian states.

Negotiating Outside the Law is replete with embarrassing factual errors and bizarre assertions. Helmick calls the Palestinian intifada "a campaign of nonviolence," and claims that Abu Nidal was an Israeli Mossad agent. He ludicrously asserts that prior to the Madrid conference, Secretary of State James Baker obtained a written commitment from Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to allow the PLO to have a recognized headquarters in Jerusalem. Hezbollah attacks on Israel, he suggests, were merely reprisals for Israeli attacks on their villages, and Helmick indicates that the notorious Hamas terrorist, Yahya Ayyash (the "engineer"), who orchestrated suicide bombings that caused the deaths of more than seventy Israeli civilians, restrained Hamas from suicide attacks. With that kind of twisted logic, no wonder that Helmick's only other publication on these matters, an article summarizing his book,[Raymond G. Helmick, S.J., "Coercive Agreements and the Disparity of Power," Counterpunch, Dec. 18-19, 2004] was published in Counterpunch, an Internet magazine edited by Alexander Cockburn, who also published articles claiming that Jews spread anthrax and that the Israeli Mossad bombed the World Trade Center on 9-11.

Other than its flamboyant mistakes, Negotiating Outside the Law is supremely dull, consisting of a summary of the main peace process-related events that occurred from the mid-1980s through the post-Camp David conference, based almost exclusively on New York Times articles. Intertwined with this potted history are the full texts of long letters the author wrote during those years--primarily to his Palestinian correspondents--advising them on how to negotiate more effectively with Israel. His advice was not limited to the verbal; Helmick, who falsely claims the title of mediator, urged his Palestinian friends to open an intifada against Israel shortly in early 2000.

The Real Deal.......2005-01-22

This book is a positive, one might say spiritual view of one of the longest running conflicts of recent times. The author has first hand information about the players on all sides, Israel and Palestine as well as the US and he can see their warts, sunbeams and their best human qualities. I found that hearing (reading) the actual words of the participants is a rare opportunity to see that they are special people but they also put their pants on one leg at a time. If you want the real deal about the Camp David talks, the supposed generous offer and the reaction to it read this book first and then read the others.

The Long View, Narrated by a Veteran Peace Activist .......2004-12-30

Helmick's Why Camp David Failed: Negotiating Outside the Law is a timely and powerful addition to the recent spate of articles and books on the subject. The U.S-brokered negotiations for a final settlement between Israel and the Palestinians that took place at Camp David in 2000 and at Taba in January of 2001 can serve as an object lesson for what must be done differently when a new attempt at resolving the conflict is undertaken.

While the events leading up to Camp David and its immediate aftermath are the focus of the book, Helmick sets the negotiations within a masterly and evenhanded narrative of the Israel-Palestine conflict since 1985, when diplomacy focused on the conditions that were put forth by the U.S. and Israel for negotiating directly with the PLO.

Helmick's presentation of the events on the ground during this period is vivid. He is sympathetic to both Israelis and Palestinians and his narrative allows the reader to share both the hope and the despair that is the backdrop to the period's diplomatic activity.

Why Camp David Failed reads briskly and is often hard to put down. At the same time, the book's thorough index and documentation of sources give it the added virtue of being a highly accessible handbook to this period for serious students of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

The author, a professor of Conflict Resolution teaching in the theology department at Boston College, draws on insights from thirty years of his work in unofficial diplomacy in the Middle East as well as in other conflict areas around the globe. He adds to his narrative at appropriate points the letters he exchanged with some of the principal personalities involved in U.S.-Israel-Palestine diplomacy, including Barak, Sharon, Clinton and Arafat.

With many trenchant insights into the challenges that faced these personalities at the time, Helmick's letters impress the reader with their boldness as well as with their grace and clarity. As we read these letters we follow the conflict through the eyes of a courageous individual insistent on speaking truth to power in order to further the goal of peace.

But Helmick does not feel that the flaws in Camp David that ultimately led to its failure lay in the personalities involved or in their lack of good faith. In his analysis, the flaws were structural. He points to the imbalance of power between the two sides, a factor that forced the weaker party to believe it could only protect its core interests by resisting continued pressure from the stronger party to make concessions. The needed counterweight to this power imbalance, tragically missing in his view at Camp David, is a legal framework for the negotiations. Helmick's thesis is that an affirmation by both sides of their willingness to abide by international law - in this case the UN resolutions on the return of occupied territory and amelioration of the situation of refugees - is the necessary framework for successful Israeli-Palestinian talks.

His moving narrative provides support for this argument.

Negotiating Outside the Law: Why Camp David Failed.(Book review) : An article from: Middle East Quarterly

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A very good review of a very bad book

Negotiating Outside the Law: Why Camp David Failed.(Book review) : An article from: Middle East Quarterly
Joel Singer
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A very good review of a very bad book.......2006-08-14

This article is Joel Singer's excellent review of a truly terrible book, namely Raymond Helmick's "Negotiating Outside the Law." In that book, Helmick boasts of some horrible and unjust United Nations General Assembly resolutions, misrepresents some of them to make them even worse, and then pretends that they constitute international law! He then attributes the failure of Camp David negotiations in the year 2000 to failure to follow such laws.

Well, there may be something to this argument. Namely, the U.N. resolutions may indeed have inspired this atrocious book. And they may indeed have contributed to Arab intransigence, which has resulted in some violence that surely does not benefit anyone. Still, it is inexcusable to pretend that such resolutions were anything other than unjust, unreasonable, and counterproductive.

In addition, there is a risk that some of the nonsense the U.N. has come up with may one day find its way into international law. If so, it is easy to imagine how such laws will be written about by a variety of opponents of human rights.

In this review, Singer exposes some of Helmick's misstatements and misrepresentations. And he explains that Helmick was not writing as a true negotiator, but as one who was advising Arabs to open an "intifada" against Israel in the year 2000.

It may not seem to matter how negotiations come out, as long as there are signed agreements. But at Camp David, there were not even any signed agreements! Had there been a signed agreement I suspect that it would have been broken almost at once by the Arab side. In addition, I think Arab demands to steal land from land-poor Israel and ethnically cleanse it of its Jews were a threat to peace. And these were demands that Israel was prepared to accept!

Helmick wrote a very misleading book which implied that Israelis were the problem and that Arab thugs were basically non-violent and benevolent. Singer is to be congratulated for alerting us to this attack on reality.

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SIGNIFICANT VALUE FOR A HISTORY BUFF.......2000-02-24

This book is not for everyone, but if you have a real interest in the history & culture of the Native Americans of the Southern U.S.(especially Mississippi)you ought to take a look. Cushman's first hand knowledge particularly of the Choctaws is extensive. Reading this will give you a better understanding and respect of a culture that deserved more inclusion in American History. Many of the legends and historical events are fascinating and are little known. It also helps to clear up some fallacies about all three tribes. Cushman does pontificate and ramble through much of this book, even though it is abridged specifically to eliminate much of this.There are some inaccuracies as well but all in all it is fascinating and may be the most accurate and detailed history of these people.

History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indian

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History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indian
H. B. Cushman
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Strap on your snake chaps and slap on some sunscreen as biologist Jennifer Bové takes you out to the field in the company of biologists working on the frontlines of wildlife studies, botany, and resource management. This exuberant and entertaining collection of stories ranges from Myanmar to the Midwest, from Argentina to Alaska and many points in between, offering tales that are by turns thoughtful, funny, tragic, and just-plain-crazy.

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Field Biologists Will Understand This Book!.......2005-12-26

I have to warn the reader that I am a field biologist and thus somewhat prejudiced. However I think Jennifer Bové has collected a great series of stories about what it is like to be a biologist in the wild in her new book "The Back Road to Crazy: Stories From the Field." I only have met one of the authors, but in my life I have had or have known someone who has had many similar experiences as her writers describe. From Mark Moffett's sad account of a herpetologist who dies from krait bite in the Myanmar forests to Jeff Beane's lament in the North Carolina mountains this is a treasure trove for field biologists, people who like travel stories and just plain "nature nuts", to use John Acorn's Canadian TV program's title.

While I have not been to Myanmar or even North Carolina's mountains, I could tell a number of such stories, from a rainy "rattlesnake night" in Arizona and watching scorpions court under UV light on a hillside at midnight in New Mexico to an absolutely insane collecting trip to Ichetucknee Springs in northern Florida and seeing leatherback turtles come ashore to lay their eggs on Trinidad's east coast. All field biologists have a stock of such tales, because you simply cannot be a field biologist without having unusual things happen to you, even if you plan well (and, as any field biologist will tell you, a badly planned field trip can be an absolute disaster!) Jennifer Bové has now opened up this store of great stories and presented us with an absolute feast of them.

Anyone who wants to know what field biologists do should read this book. Keep in mind that there can be hours, days or weeks of boredom, but to be honest in field biology we are seldom really bored. The neat part about being a field biologist is that there is discovery awaiting all of us in every forest, desert, prairie, sea shore, creek, pond or lake. We are truly fortunate in that even waiting near a city vacant lot we can find interest in the ever fascinating tapestry of living things. It is what makes all the risks worth it. Although I could point out that crossing a street in any large city in the United States is usually more dangerous than any field work in a rain forest or desert!

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Environmental liabilities are of increasing concern to companies. Two leading environmental lawyers explain the legal responsibilities and potential liabilities faced by company directors under UK and European environmental law, what steps to take to avert liabilities and what to do in the event of environmental problems, including dealing with whistle-blowing by employees and senior officers, and liabilities for activities overseas

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