Offshore Finance Centers and Tax Havens: The Rise of Global Capital (Ichor Business Books)

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"Essays explore the origins of the current situation in global financial capital from the perspectives of economics, geography, international law, and international politics. Specific topics include offshore and the structural building of sovereignty, international banking and offshore finance, and offshore finance and citizenship. Includes case studies on tax havens, such as Malaysia, Malta, and South Africa. Mark P. Hampton is a senior lecturer in economics at the University of Portsmouth. Abbott is a lecturer in international studies at Nottingham Trent University." -Book News, Inc.

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Just give this guy a read

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Another wonderful K Chronicles compendium...

Faster, Sheep-lover! Laugh! Laugh!

Keith is a sweetie!

Fear of a Black Marker: Another K Chronicles Compendium
Keith Knight
Manufacturer: Manic D Press
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Keith Knight's comics are simultaneously lighthearted, wild, and clever, and his great strength is the deftness with which he blends political insight, whacked-out surrealism, neurotic humor, and personal honesty. His comic strip, K Chronicles, runs in the San Francisco Examiner, on Salon.com, and in dozens of alternative newsweeklies across the country. Reminiscent of Calvin and Hobbes, Knight's drawing style is fluid and dynamic.

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Just give this guy a read.......2005-04-16

My good friend, a comic shop owner, gave me his signed collection of "Keef's" first collection. I remember Keith wandering around the San Diego Comic Con wearing a paper mache' head of his comic character which was, of course, himself. He was having a blast. His strip is full of good belly laughs and his poigniant take on contemporary living is bare bones hilarious. He can be considerably less than tactful but then so is life. So, do yourself a favor and buy his books, all of them. So what if he has brown skin. Who cares? Just dump the "race" crap. His life is full of the same triumphs and disappointments as the rest of us "white" folks. That's the key; he's clearly in there with the rest of us just struggling to make his life make sense even when it's obviously, often senseless, to no fault of his own. To have to make that point is pretty obsequious in itself.
You don't have to fully agree with his take on things to get the points he's making.
And....best of all, he's funny!

Get this Book.......2001-11-10

Listen, just get this book. This is not one of those reviews where I'm going to say funny things, or make up gorgeous metaphors for anyone's catastrophic talent. Just get this book. It's really funny, and you like funny, right? Everyone likes funny!

I'm not African American, or a guy, and I don't live in California, and I'm not an artist, and I don't have a twin, but I can relate to this guy-- OK, we're the same age, and yeah, that helps, but the point is, he's just some guy. He's not married to Jane Pauley, or earning six figures, but really, he's better than them all.

Another wonderful K Chronicles compendium..........2001-09-21

The very best thing about Wednesday is that a new K Chronicles comic is posted to Salon.com! Keef is exceedingly talented and I wish my local newspaper ran his strip daily instead of the mostly boring and awful ones they feature presently. Unfortunately, this will not happen in my lifetime - luckily there are books like this to fill the gap!

Faster, Sheep-lover! Laugh! Laugh!.......2001-03-17

Knight's second "K Chronicles" collection is as zany as his first. From birthdays to family relations to touring with his band the Marginal Prophets to being subjected to "The Phantom Menace" movie, his cartoons's themes are full of social commentary, neurotic humor, and skewed realism. I think his ones about working at youth hostels and seeing the cultural-centrism of America at work are so perfectly calibrated. He's definitely worth reading, and I certainly wish his comic appeared in my area!

Oh, and his comics inspire me daily to stare at the walls and envision drawings of snowstorms (like page 103).

Keith is a sweetie!.......2000-09-17

I have met Keith several times and not only are his comics swell but he is a really great guy. His humor shines. I have bought this for friends as a gift and it has not ever disaappointed.

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It's the ideal gift for a cat lover: a thoroughly charming compendium of fabulous feline short stories, extracts, poems, and even a complete kitty astrology. Lavish illustrations and irresistible paintings are by an artist whose work has graced books, cards, stationery, jigsaws, and more. The title feline in Jan D'Lord's humorous tale, "Bluebell: Diary of a Cat Branching Out" appears stuck in a tree after chasing a squirrel. Paws balanced on branches, plaintive face stretched out in the purple evening light, Bluebell seems to await rescue. In another darling image, several cats cuddle on a bed, atop their resting owner. Whether standing in the snow, lazing in a pumpkin patch, or taking the sun on a window seat, each animal has its own beauty and winning personality. Included among the writings: William Cowper's A Poet's Cat, passages from George Orwell's A Clergyman's Daughter, and Charles Dudley Warner's Calvin the Cat.

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John Meredyth Lucas, son of silent screen star and screenwriter Bess Meredyth (Ben-Hur, The Sea Beast, When a Man Loves, Don Juan) and stepson of renowned Hungarian-born director Michael Curtiz (Casablanca, Mildred Pierce, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Life with Father), came of age in Hollywood during the 1930s. Lucas went on to an impressive career of his own as a writer-producer-director. He made films with Hal Wallis, Ross Hunter, Walt Disney, and others, and he wrote, produced, and directed such classic television series as Mannix, The Fugitive and Star Trek.

Completed shortly before his death in 2002, Lucas' memoir is filled with never-before-told recollections of many Hollywood greats and features previously unpublished photographs. With Lucas, we go behind the scenes, onto the studio lots and into the parties with family friends John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn and Jack Warner, to name just a few. It's a boy's-eye-view of Hollywood in a time of glamour, decadence, and the golden years of filmmaking.

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Startled by rapid social changes at the turn of the twentieth century, citizens of Atlanta wrestled with fears about the future of race relations, the shape of gender roles, the impact of social class, and the meaning of regional identity in a New South. Gavin James Campbell demonstrates how these anxieties were played out in Atlanta's popular musical entertainment.

Examining the period from 1890 to 1925, Campbell focuses on three popular musical institutions: the New York Metropolitan Opera (which visited Atlanta each year), the Colored Music Festival, and the Georgia Old-Time Fiddlers' Convention. White and black audiences charged these events with deep significance, Campbell argues, turning an evening's entertainment into a struggle between rival claimants for the New South's soul. Opera, spirituals, and fiddling became popular not just because they were entertaining, but also because audiences found them flexible enough to accommodate a variety of competing responses to the challenges of making a New South.

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Started by the National Life and Accident Insurance Company in 1925, WSM became one of the most influential and exceptional radio stations in the history of broadcasting and country music. WSM gave Nashville the moniker “Music City USA” as well as a rich tradition of music, news, and broad-based entertainment. With the rise of country music broadcasting and recording between the 1920s and ‘50s, WSM, Nashville, and country music became inseparable, stemming from WSM’s launch of the Grand Ole Opry, popular daily shows like Noontime Neighbors, and early morning artist-driven shows such as Hank Williams on Mother’s Best Flour.

Sparked by public outcry following a proposal to pull country music and the Opry from WSM-AM in 2002, Craig Havighurst scoured new and existing sources to document the station’s profound effect on the character and self-image of Nashville. Introducing the reader to colorful artists and businessmen from the station’s history, including Owen Bradley, Minnie Pearl, Jim Denny, Edwin Craig, and Dinah Shore, the volume invites the reader to reflect on the status of Nashville, radio, and country music in American culture.

Music and the Making of a New South.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History

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Music and the Making of a New South.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History
Benjamin Filene
Manufacturer: Southern Historical Association
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Southern Historical Association on May 1, 2005. The length of the article is 535 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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makes it very easy to learn a confusing program

It was a pleasure to learn using it!

Photography Book

Not usefull

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop Elements 4 (Teach Yourself Visually)

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop Elements 4 (Teach Yourself VISUALLY (Tech))
Mike Wooldridge , and Linda Wooldridge
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Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something - and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 150 Photoshop Elements 4 tasks. Each task-based spread includes these great features to get you up and running on Photoshop Elements 4 in no time:
* Helpful sidebars that offer practical tips and tricks
* Succinct explanations that walk you through step by step
* Full-color screen shots that demonstrate each task
* Two-page lessons that break big topics into bite-sized modules

Learn How To:
* Import images from different sources
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makes it very easy to learn a confusing program.......2007-06-05

I really like the "Teach Yourself Visually" computer books. I have a collection which includes a selection of all the popular "For Dummies" and similar computer guides, and the "Teach Yourself Visually" is by far the easiest for me to understand. The digital photography programs are very hard for me to learn, and this book helped a lot.

It was a pleasure to learn using it!.......2007-03-25

I use to take lots of photos and like to edit them.
So, lear to edit was my objective last months.
And this book help me to do this in a very easy way.
With lots os images and tips, and with a superior text, it was a pleasure to learn using it!

Photography Book .......2006-11-02

Easy to read and understand. Just what I was looking for.

Not usefull.......2006-07-15

This book containes lots of pretty pictures but not a lot of helpful information on the "how to" details for someone new to the process.

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop Elements 4 (Teach Yourself Visually).......2006-06-30

It was hard to use and understand.

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The definitive one-volume reference to the armies, arms, and actions of the century that defined modern warfare. The Napoleonic Wars opened the century; the American Civil War punctuated its midpoint. Throughout, conflict seldom abated, whether between the European powers on their own continent or between their colonial proxies around the world. Byron Farwell, an authoritative and engaging chronicler of military history, illuminates here all aspects of this colorful, horrifying, compelling century of war. Global in reach, the encyclopedia covers Latin American rebellions; African, Indian, and Southeast Asian conflicts; Chinese and Japanese actions; and the Indian wars of North America. It is comprehensive, with coverage of weapons development, battles and campaigns, military leaders, and more. Farwell's treatment of military medicine and wartime journalism is unmatched, and his interpretive essays relate events and people to one another and to the century's technological and scientific trends. Including nearly 1,000 illustrations reproduced from period sources, this groundbreaking encyclopedia is destined to become a much-used and desired reference. Nearly 1000 black-and-white illustrations and maps throughout.

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Magnificent!.......2003-11-20

The magnum opus of the late Byron Farwell, a retired British officer and historian. If you want to know anything about land nineteenth century land warfare, this is the book for you. Written in an unadorned flowing style the book is a pleasure to read and not simply to use as a reference work. A valuable work that should serve to give background information in the development of the military art in the nineteenth cenury for the student of any particular conflict, be it the Napoleonic Wars, the Civil War, etc. The production quality of the book is quite high, with the pages being printed on heavy, high quality paper and with an excellent binding. In an age of shoddy publishing I was pleasantly surprised by this book.

An Inexhaustable Treasure Trove of 19th Century History........2002-08-19

I came to this book as a retired lawyer with a life long interest in history, particularly as to its military aspects. No longer required by profession to spend most of my reading time in case books, I realized that compromised health has at least one benefit, namely to pursue knowledge for its own sake. I have always believed that next to reading and basic math, the most important subject in our schools should be history, but as my sons wended their way through the educational process, I realized that this wasn't so. And where history was offered, it became disassociated with the truth, largely because of academic championing of plain wrong philosophies such as political correctness, multiculturalsim and nonjudgmental ethics. This, I found, was most concentrated at the college level. So what has that got to do with whether or not you should buy this book? A lot. If you do no more than accept what occurs on the world stage as a spectator, then pass on. But if you, like me, frequently wonder, "why?", then I recommend this very comprehensive book without reservation. For example, do you think that the extremely militant form of Islam called "Wahhabianism" is a recent thing? Farwell shows that it was the cause of the Arabian Wars of 1801 -1842. Vietnam a 1960's thing? The French waged war there about the same time that America was engaged in its Civil War. Afghanistan a today event? The British fought two wars there. War dominated the 19th Century, and a reading of this book makes it clear that the fallout from those wars are with us yet. If the French saying (translated) that, "The more things change, the more they remain the same." has any truth to it, it is exemplified time and again in this excellent work. Yes, it's big and costs a bit, but it was worth every dollar to me. It's accurate, and in being so, it is very judgmental on such matters as how the Americans dealt with the "Indian Issue", British, French and US colonialism, centuries old Islamic militarism and the frequent failure of the use of force to solve political issues. As I noted in another review, as we continue as a nation to wage war on terrorism, there is a growing need for informed Americans, both in the positions of leadership, and of those who elect them. There is much to be learned from this excellent work, and it is beautifully well-organized to permit quick access to subject matter. Of course, Farwell's writing skill is outstanding. And just think of the questions that your friends may be hesitant to ask when they see THIS book on the coffee table!

A Most Bellicose Century.......2002-05-11

By John McCaughey

One comes away from Byron Farwell's huge book on 19th century warfare* with the rather dismal reflection that there was not one single day in those one hundred years when wars small or large were not being waged somewhere on the globe and thousands of people were being killed daily--often with barbarism. The soldiers, naturally, did the rough work, but civilian inventors and technicians toiled tirelessly behind the scenes to invent and manufacture ever more efficient and cost-effective ways to kill people. Far from the firing lines, politicians fomented wars. Very many of those wars were instigated for asinine reasons.

Ambitiously, Farwell paints his huge canvas for both the scholar and the general reader of military history. It is, he says, a tale of wars, revolutions, battles, sieges, spies, soldiers, technical military terms, weapons, armies, military awards, camp followers and other aspects of 19th century wars and military life. Nor does he neglect that other factor that caused more deaths than all the weapons combined: diseases, including venereal disease which filled the military hospitals.

The book takes us into a far different world to today's high-tech warfare, sketching feats of almost unbelievable courage, stoicism and unshakeable devotion to duty. There was, for example, Henry Havelock (1795-1857) who, learning of the massacre of the garrison at Cawnpore in India led 2,000 infantry, some volunteer cavalry and six guns to defeat the rebels. By forced marches at the hottest time of the year he traversed 126 miles in nine days (14 miles a day through rough country for redcoats carrying heavy kit).

Defeating a rebel force, he entered Cawnpore and then--despite dwindling ammunition and supplies and a plague of cholera and dysentery that was killing off many of his men--he marched on to try to relieve the beseiged Lucknow, defeating two forces of mutineers on the way.

In an armchair, it is comfortable to read about all this, but it requires little imagination to envision what Havelock and his soldiers must have endured--driven on by their sense of duty, their faith in the British Raj and the iron discipline of the army.

Farwell (sadly, he died several years ago) was a veteran military historian, author of more than a dozen histories and a notable biography of Stonewall Jackson. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is one of his many fans. Much of his success is due to his eye for the odd or quixotic, which makes this book more readable than most other encyclopedias.

At random, then, we learn that:

#A U.S. marine called Jonathan Goble, stationed in China, in 1855 invented the rickshaw;
#The British office of "Gold Stick in Waiting" goes back to 1678 (the author is adept at describing orders of chivalry and ceremonial posts);
#The notorious Nazi "Goose Step" straight-legged, stiff-kneed march (George Orwell called it "one of the most horrible sights in the world") derived from a drill in which recruits were taught balance by standing on one leg and swinging the other backward and forward;

A thousand other such intriguing factoids sprinkle this book like confetti. Farwell's disquisition, for example, on the somewhat odd preoccupation of all armies throughout history with the hairstyles of soldiers and officers alike is a masterpiece of dry humor.

Nor does Farwell shrink from the ugly side of war--noting, for example, with considerable imagery, that at the conclusion of the Siege of Verona in the Peninsular War on 11 December 1809 "some 3,000 walking skeletons surrendered."

The real joy of this book, though, is in the arcania. How the dickens did Farwell find out so much about the Ghost Dance of the Oglala Sioux? Or the story of Rollo Gillespie, a small man who assailed in his quarters one night in the West Indies by a gang of desperados grabbed his sword and killed six of them. Word of the feat preceded him to England, where, some years later, upon being presented to King George III at a levee, the royal personage remarked: "Eh, eh? What, what! Is this the little man that killed the brigands?" One might almost be in the room with the dotty monarch and the little man.

And always, like the sun about to break through the thunderclouds of war, lurks Farwell's characteristic dry humor. Of one British officer he writes: "He was a decisive man, perhaps too decisive. One of his colleagues spoke of 'One of those long conferences he held on grave issues. They generally lasted from two to five minutes'."

Lord knows how long it is, but at 900 pages the encyclopedia can scarcely be less than half a million words. Such books are not intended for narrative reading, but a daily dip into this one will invariably reward the readers with some quixotic, historical or amusing anecdote. The U.S. military could do a lot worse than to issue a copy to all ranks.

All in all, the book is an extraordinary display of erudition and of awesome industry. In no small way, it is Byron Farwell's monument.

But this reviewer's favorite entry is on the "Gunner's Chant." Explains Farwell:

"Sometimes called the gunner's doxology. Before watches became common, this was a chant used by artillery noncommissioned officers when firing salutes in order to time the intervals between rounds and keep them uniform. It began:

"Fire!
If I had good sense I wouldn't be here.
Fire!
I'd like to slip off for a pail of beer.
Fire!"

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*The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Land Warfare by Byron Farwell. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York. ISBN 0-393-04770-9. [$]

A good read and well researched.......2001-11-25

This is a great book. It covers every aspect of 19th Century warfare from technology, equipment, battles and personalities. Each entry is well structured and written in a clear and understanding manner and most importantly, it is short and to the point. A great reference book for anyone who enjoys military history.

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The Great Depression was a time of hardship for many Americans, but for the citizens of Harlem it was made worse by past and present discrimination. Or Does It Explode? examines Black Harlem from the 1920s through the Depression and New Deal to the outbreak of World War II. It describes the changing economic and social lives of Harlemites, and the complex responses of a resilient community to racism and poverty. Greenberg demonstrates that far from remaining passive in the face of hard times, Harlemites mobilized to better their opportunities and living conditions through numerous organizations and grass-roots political activism. Their successes led to changed employment practices and new government programs. This progress was not always enough, however, and the resulting anger of the community twice exploded in riot, in 1935 and 1943. The book traces the history of these protests, both organized and spontaneous. It places them within their political and economic contexts by exploring the diversity of Harlem's family and community life, its experiences with work and relief, and its interaction with the administrations of New York City and New Deal agencies.

Or Does It Explode: Black Harlem in the Great Depression

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Cheryl Lynn Greenberg
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Does the Horse Explode?: Visual Effects for Television

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Peter Jarvis
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Or does he explode?
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Or does it explode?" Black Harlem in the Great Depression.
Cheryl Lynn Greenberg
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WILD!

Great reportage with a wink and a guffaw

Cool stuff, marred by smartass tone: 4.6 stars

Regis loves these guys.

Passionate and Visionary - More than he realized...

Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over the Edge
Ed Regis , and Edward Regis
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Sometimes a book has such a wonderful title that you assume the text could not be any good: but The Great Mambo Chicken is in fact a wonderfully rollicking masterpiece of scientific reportage about some of the wilder ideas being seriously considered by scientists "slightly over the edge" Regis describes the life and ideas of rocket scientists who would like everyone to have their own way into space, cryogenecists who hope to freeze people for revival in the future, nanotechnologists who want to build molecular robots to fix everything, and space colonists who want to build new worlds from the spare parts of the solar system -- and beyond. The most remarkable thing about the stories: Regis reveals that these seemingly disparate communities are all interwoven in unexpected ways. Even Evel Knievel makes a surprise visit in the chapter on personal rocket ships. Very Highly Recommended, and likely to become an Amazon.com Books customer favorite.

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WILD!.......2006-12-06

Read about the guy who decapitated his mother! Read about Evel Knievel, who broke most every bone in his body(?)! Read about Great Mambo Chicken! Read all about it! Wild!

Great reportage with a wink and a guffaw.......2006-07-04

In Great Mambo Chicken, Regis takes you on a sort of side-show tour of scientifistic cargo cults that persist to this day. The images flit by kaleidoscopically: Evel Kneivel riding Traux's rocket; the Hensons, who co-founded the L5 society, digging tunnels under their house and setting off bombs in the Arizona desert; an illustration of a fractal "bush robot" as ultimate apotheosis of the human form; and of course the muscular centrifuge-raised chickens from the book's title, who manage to occupy a paragraph or two. The book's people, like characters from a Hitchcock movie, are deeply flawed but utterly engaging: "Hans Moravec once complained about *matter itself* that it wasn't really *doing* anything! Things will be different in *his* universe..."

It's an engaging yarn told by a half-believer. Yet hints of a bigger story poke through from time to time. Regis does not leave this to chance but pulls it together near the very end of the book. Delving deeper into history, he shows that there's good reason why these techno-cults have persisted over the years. If you want deeper insight into the mythical longings that drive much of our modern technocracy, Great Mambo Chicken is well worth the read.

Cool stuff, marred by smartass tone: 4.6 stars.......2006-05-19

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Rating "A-": The lighter side of space flight, immortality,
nanotechnology, and artificial life.

Years ago, I read and enjoyed Regis's "Great Mambo Chicken And
The Transhuman Condition" (1990). A lively compilation of
"science slightly over the edge," it updates us to 1990 on work in
space flight, immortality, nanotechnology, artificial life and other
engineering visions. I didn't much care for Regis' smartass tone,
but he does a fine job of introducing the cast of *characters* and
(reluctantly) concluding that they're not just screwballs. Here's a
sample:

In 1987 Keith Henson founded the Far Edge Committee. The
group's sole purpose was to begin planning of the Far Edge Party, an
enormous gathering of downloaded multiple selves to be held in
the far-off future and at the other side of the Milky Way....

"After your multiple personalities had collectively experienced all
there was to experience, you could get them back together again to
communicate and share memories," Henson explained.

"Everyone I know is going to be there," Henson said. "I must know
about a thousand people who are planning to come."

By party time, that initial thousand would have burgeoned into
countless trillions of people - what with all the downloading and
splitting and copying and so on - making for logistics problems of
considerable dimensions.

"If the party got big enough," he said, "the bean dip alone would
form a black hole." (Among party organizers, this was known as
the Bean Dip Catastrophe. Another nightmare was that every third
person would turn out to be Keith Henson.)

"I expect to convert a whole galaxy into beer cans," he said.

I'd definitely recommend "Mambo" over Regis's "Nano," though I suppose it's
now somewhat out of date.

Review copyright 1998 by Peter D. Tillman

Regis loves these guys........2006-04-10

The guy who said that Regis "sneers" at the scientists and "holds himself above" them has it all wrong. Regis is praising these guys, he admires them, and so will you if you read this book. By now we have all heard such phrases and words as "space tourism" and "nanotechnology." Well, in Great Mambo Chicken, you can meet the people who made these words mean something. After I read it I couldn't shut up about all the wonderful ideas I'd found there. Hey, none other than Evel Kneivel shows up in this thing! Bet you didn't know he had any connection to space tourism, did you?
I took away one star because, yes, the word "hubristic" does get old after a while. Then again, it's fun to read a book by an author whose favorite sin is hubris, instead of lust.

Passionate and Visionary - More than he realized..........2003-08-13

This is a great and funny book. Yesterday and today, there were articles on the web about Ted William's body at Alcor, having the head severed and both the head and body frozen. In this book's funniest chapter, titled, "Heads will roll". One of the book's characters takes his poor sick mother to Alcor, and they sever her head as she's about to die. The ensuing legal and criminal implications are a riot as they first start to attempt to get a death certificate to get her body buried. The coroner is highly suspicious that a body without a head, "died of pneumonia." Criminal charges and other problems erupt. Hard to believe that similar issues have surfaced again 12 years after this book first appeared. If you like science and seeing the amusing side of it, then you will enjoy this book.

Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition - Science Slightly Over The Edge

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Ed Regis
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Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over the Edge
Ed Regis
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Edward Regis
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Ed Regis
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