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The hottest in high-toned filth! This is truly the state-of-the-art in explicit erotic illustration! Never has the act of carnal pleasure been SO lovingly portrayed! Artists from around the round world have gotten in line to take turns creating the ULTIMATE fantasy! Art by Drew Posada, Marcus Gray, Luis Royo, Erik Drudwyn, Lorenzo Sperlonga, Lori Benson, Sonia Roji, and a special photo spread showcasing fantasy model Stacy E. Walker! If you could mix the most enjoyable elements of a lap-dance and and an art gallery, you'd probably end up with Artcore! WARNING: Flame-retardant oven mitts NOT included! 96 pages in magnificently reproduced full color fleshy fleshtones!

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overhyped.......2006-07-03

The reviews for this book, along with these whole series of art books will lead you to believe that they are the most shocking, greatest things since sliced bread. Don't believe the hype. Yes, thier are pictures of girls using dildo's. Big deal. Yes their are some pictures of anime girls getting punished. Oooooooooooohhhh, like we have never seen that before! Basically thier is not much new or groundbreakin stuff here, just some nude drawings and some lame comics. I'd skip it and use the money to get Cleavengers stuff, if you havent already.

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Damn That Was Funny.......2004-01-08

This book was really, really funny. Some of the stories i read were so hilarious i almost fell out of my seat. Especially the people that stole the dumbest things and ended up getting caught anyway for something that was completely pointless. I definitely reccommend this book to those who want a good laugh. Just be aware: don't laugh too hard!

Crime antedotes in a minute.......2002-06-22

This book is not bad. It contains some funny accounts of robberies and whatnot, but there isn't much in the way of detail. The stories just give the bare bones of what happened. Most are just one to two pages long. If you're not much of a reader, this would be a good book for you.

The World's Stupidest Criminals: A Comical Collection of 400 Real-Life Bumbling Burglars, Dithering Delinquents, and Other Foolish Felons

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The World's Stupidest Criminals: A Comical Collection of 400 Real-Life Bumbling Burglars, Dithering Delinquents, and Other Foolish Felons
Fortean Times
Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Pub
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O3OBE4

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The World's Stupidest Criminals: A Comical Collection of 400 Real-Life Bumbling Burglars, Dithering Delinquents, and Other Foolish Felons
Unkown
Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K7P64S

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This book offers a startling re-evaluation of what has until now been seen as the most critically lackluster period of the British cinema. Twenty writers contribute essays that rediscover and reassess the productions of the Festival of Britain decade, during which the vitality of wartime film-making flowed into new forms. Topics covered include genres such as the B-film, the war film, the woman's picture, the theatrical adaptation and comedy; also social issues such as censorship and the screen representation of childhood.

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A Primer for Newbies.......2005-01-03

The editors and authors have opened my eyes to many British films of the 1950s that sound perfectly fascinating and which I have never seen. Corin Redgrave delivers a paper on his father's film work which makes one yearn to see more of Michael Redgrave's films. There's a splendid article on B-movie production in the 1950s that focusses in on "Tympean Films," and shows that B-movies can sometimes embody more of social reality than the A pictures because they do so more or less by accident. Robert Giddings reads the Dirk Bogarde version of A TALE OF TWO CITIES in light of the Cold War, and Dirk figures heavily in Alison Platt's piquant essay, "Boys, Ballet, and Begonias: The SPANISH GARDENER and its analogues." Sarah Kasen gives a straightforward account of the place of film in the Festival of Britain, and Tony Aldgate shows the places in which the gay-themed SERIOUS CHARGE had trouble making it to the screen with all its bits intact. One stupid note spoils the whole: The timeline appended to the volume shows that the only event in UK literature worth recording in 1955 was the publication of F.R. Leavis' "DH LAWRENCE, NOVELIST." i don't think so! This bizarre anomaly is explained by the fact that one of the editors (Ian Mackillop) is the world's #1 Leavis expert and it is he who is charged with the uphill task of resuscitating Leavis' thoroughly torpid reputation.

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"Electric Ladyland adds an important layer to the study of rock's Golden Age and that era's pervasive influence on the attitudes still prevalent in popular music today."--Ann Powers, former New York Times music critic and senior curator, Experience Music ProjectWith the explosion of rock music in the mid-1960s, women arrived--as performers, critics, and fans. While operating in radically different ways within rock culture, female musicians, journalists, and groupies rewrote women's roles on and off the stage in the 1960s and 1970s.Electric Ladyland is a social and cultural history of this formative era in rock and roll, examining how the changing roles of women were intertwined with the evolution of the music. Articles and reviews from Rolling Stone and the Village Voice provide a window on a time when female musicians such as Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, and Joni Mitchell battled sexism from concert promoters and mainly male reviewers. Feminist rock journalists, however, were coming into their own. In particular, Ellen Willis, music critic for the New Yorker, and Lillian Roxon, author of the influential Rock Encyclopedia, transformed the way society perceived sometimes marginalized female performers.The groupie was born at the same time, and Rhodes devotes considerable attention to the rise of this phenomenon. Through journalistic accounts as well as personal interviews with groupies of the 1960s and 1970s, she explores these women's dual legacy of self-assertion and promiscuous behavior that resonates to this day through the popularity of such films as Almost Famous.Deeply informed by critical media studies and drawing on diverse and rich sources, Electric Ladyland assesses the lasting effects of cultural representations on female sexuality and gender roles.

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On-the-go Instrction Because your time is valuable... All Audio All on the go! Beginning level instruction is presented in an all-audio format on 4 digitally-recorded CDs. You have the opportunity to learn on the go, taking advantage of time normally wasted. Study in your car, while exercising, doing yard work anywhere you can safely listen to a CD player. No accompanying books are needed to help you complete the lesson activities. Why can t learning be fun? It can! Linguaphone has chosen to present the allTalk series in an entertaining, soap-opera format. No dry old teacher with a monotone voice putting you to sleep, you follow the adventures of a visitor to a Spanish-speaking country as she interacts with individuals in a variety of interesting situations, learning the language and beginning to understand the culture. Actually learn the language Tired of spending money on language courses that don t work? Did you ever think the problem could be with the course and not you? With Linguaphone s unique learning sequence: Listen, Understand, Speak, you will find yourself actually using the language in no time at all! You are presented with a unit of the language, it is then broken down and explained to you, then you put it back together with greater understanding than just repeating what you may not have understood in the first place. . . . and learn it well! The all Talk methodology not only teaches well, but will have you speaking and understanding basic spoken Spanish in no time at all. Other popular all-audio courses require four times the cds, four times the money and four times the time to do what Linguaphone s allTalk Basic does with 4-one hour CDs.

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Easy "as it gets" Guide
Easy Guide(?) - A misleading title

Easy Guide to the Dragon
Mikhail Golubev
Manufacturer: Everyman Chess
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ASIN: 185744275X

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The Dragon is in many ways the most logical way for Black to play the Sicilian. He develops his pieces quickly and aggressively, challenging White to attack before Black consolidates his positional pluses, or turns them into a devastating counterattack. The Easy Guide to the Dragon shows Black's best responses to all lines, focusing particularly on the critical Yugoslav Attack. It shows up-to-date, detailed coverage by a leading Dragon specialist and includes recommendations for White. Golubev has devoted particular attention to the Yugoslav Attack with 9-0-0-0, a fashionable system which is his recommendation for White.

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Easy "as it gets" Guide.......2001-07-17

... How about we change the title to "Easy as it gets" guide to the bla bla opening? How much easier can you make the Dragon? Mr. G covers all the main lines, most of the obscure ones, and through my study of this book I've been able to gain excellent positions. As someone who knew a "little" about the dragon, this book has been an excellent "next step". So far I haven't felt the need to get another book on this opening.

Easy Guide(?) - A misleading title.......2000-04-12

There is very little verbal explanation in this book - one is simply shown masses of variations. Tis is typical of sharp lines like the Sicilian Dragon - hence, there is no point in really claiming to write Easy Guides on such Openings.

However, the book scores highly on all other points - good writing/translation and evaluations and assessments of critical and off beat lines by the author( a Dragon expert and GM practitioner who has introduced a few novelties in this opening). I prefer this book to the Gufeld-Stetsko book on the same opening, though I think players new to the Dragon should not expect to find loads of words that make thier lives easier.

Highly recommended to any Dragon player, and is content-wise deserving of 5 stars. However, that misleading title...

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Not introductory as I expected.......2004-03-29

This book served as my introduction to Eclipse, and I found it not as helpful as just playing with Eclipse itself. After play time was over, I went to the book again, and saw some improvements that I could have used.

I don't mean to say that the book is bad. It's a little overweight with Java references, true, but it still covers one of the best Java IDEs available, and the fact that it's better than many commercial IDEs just makes it more pleasing.

I believe I got this book when I wasn't ready for it, or when I wasn't the main target audience, and that this may skew my perception of it. In any sense, the book just wasn't my piece of pie, but I can see it being someone elses.

Best and Only Book on EMF.......2003-12-15

This is the best and only work on the Eclipse Modeling Framework, which is the code generation engine built into the Eclipse IDE. It's a solid work, but it's one flaw is that it is neither a completely how-to book, nor is it completely architectural work, so it will probably frustrate most readers to some degree. This is the only reason I didn't give it a perfect rating.

Significant Productivity Gains.......2003-09-22

If you have used Eclipse to program Java, you might have gotten comfortable with its capabilities. Very intuitive and kindly donated by IBM to open source. So when I opened this book, I anticipated oodles of helpful tweaks and shortcuts.

But not so. IBM has indeed provided these in the book. But their goals were far more ambitious. The Eclipse Modelling Framework is a serious effort to incorporate into a development environment java, XML and UML. They found, perhaps correctly, that most Java programmers, including, and maybe especially the experienced ones, don't really use UML much. Okay, as an afterthought, to document a code base upon a major release. But rarely as a starting point. So one intent is to seamlessly let java programmers incorporate UML. More strongly, they claim that EMF lets you define a model in any of java, XML or UML. Then simply clicking a button will make EMF generate the other 2 forms. The greatest payoff for this is that it lets programmers, who may not be fluent in UML, make a graphical UML model and thence have EMF make the java code stubs. Much less error prone than doing it manually.

There is an analogy here with Spice, if any of you have an electrical engineering background. Until the late 80s, if you wanted to model a circuit in Spice, you typically drew it by hand on paper. Then you manually transcribed these into a text file of netlists that was input into Spice. Slow and very error prone. Then along came MicroSim, Carver Mead's Magic program and others, that let you construct a circuit diagram on a console, and from which you could press a button and a Spice input file would be made. Much more productive.

The book offers a similar gain in productivity. All you are asked to risk is your time in understanding the book.

Good book but also read www.eclipse.org articles.......2003-09-11

First four chapters of this book are an excellent introduction to EMF. Last section of this book wastes too many pages by listing reference APIs. I would highly recommend that you read equally important EMF overview documents available on the www.eclipse.org site before you buy this book.

Essential EMF Reading.......2003-09-04

If you are doing modeling already you will find this book invaluable, if you are on the fense tetering between like and dislike for modeling this book will push you over the edge to loving it.

The authors go through each of the aspects of EMF in detail so you can not only build a great model for your application but also explain what is happening so that you understand what is going on within the framework.

My only negative comment is the inclusion of what amounts to java doc in the last 250 pages. The book would have been just as good without the extra weight.

All around a great book and worthy of purchase.

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EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework (2nd Edition) (The Eclipse Series)
Dave Steinberg , Frank Budinsky , Marcelo Paternostro , and Ed Merks
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
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Eclipse Rich Client Platform: Designing, Coding, and Packaging Java(TM) Applications (The Eclipse Series)

ASIN: 0321331885

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The Eclpise Modeling Framework (EMF) is a framework and code generation facility that lets you define a model in any of these forms--Java interfaces, UML diagram, or XML Schema. EMF doesn't require a completely different methodology or any sophisticated modeling tools. All you need to get started with EMF are the Eclipse Java Development Tools. EMF relates modeling concepts directly to their implementations, thereby bringing to Eclipse-and Java developers in general-the benefits of modeling with a low cost of entry. Unlike most tools of this type, EMF is truly integrated with and tuned for efficient programming. It answers the often-asked question, "Should I model or should I program?" with a resounding, "Both." This book, written by the lead architects of EMF, provides both an introduction and tutorial to how to leverage and work with this powerful framework. In addition to the new coverage (see overflow page) this book provides:

· A basic overview of the most important concepts in EMF and modeling.

· Analysis of the most important framework classes and generator patterns including insightful discussions of various design alternatives.

· Examples of many common framework customizations and programming techniques.

Eclipse Development Using the Graphical Editing Framework And the Eclipse Modeling Framework (IBM Redbooks)

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Eclipse Development Using the Graphical Editing Framework And the Eclipse Modeling Framework (IBM Redbooks)
IBM Redbooks
Manufacturer: IBM.Com/Redbooks
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Eclipse Modeling Framework
Stephen Brodsky
Manufacturer: ADDISON WESLEY PROF
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K2SG2M

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"Lying has always been part of politics. Traditionally, however, the lie was seen as a necessary evil that those in power should keep from their subjects. . . . Following the proclamations of victory in the Iraqi War, however, that sense of purpose became imperiled along with the trust necessary for maintaining a democratic discourse. The Bush administration has boldly proclaimed the legitimacy of the lie, the irrelevance of trust, while the mainstream media has essentially looked the other way."-from the book

Blood in the Sand is Stephen Eric Bronner's powerful critique of the current state of American foreign and domestic policy, ranging from the government's initial response to 9/11 and the assault on Afghanistan through the Iraqi War and the ramifications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Bronner, who just months before the war began spent time in Iraq as part of a peace delegation, examines the state of twenty-first century America, a nation in which security against future terrorist attacks has become an obsession, "moral values" have turned into a slogan, and belief in the right to engage in a preemptive strike has come to define foreign policy.

In Blood in the Sand, Bronner develops a bold new framework for a modern democratic foreign policy. In doing so, he passionately warns of the consequences of failure to alter the current course of events in America: extreme economic inequalities of power, political authoritarianism, imperialist ambitions, and an increasingly constrained cultural climate.

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Poor arguments and plenty of misinformation.......2006-05-04

I think it is a good idea to question some of the actions of our present administration. But I also think it is a good idea to use facts and logic to do so. Even a lying and counterproductive administration will look good when the attacks on it are illogical, irrational, and false.

Was the election in 2000 in Florida stolen? Of course. Had Bush received all of Gore's votes and had Gore obtained all of Bush's votes, Bush would have won very easily. But when Gore was the one who got the most votes in Florida, he lost. There was a legislature and a Supreme Court that made sure of that! Still, I think it does little good to mention this unless one wants to be honest about other issues as well.

Is Gandhi a good person to discuss in a book that mentions Israel? Maybe so! After all, Gandhi recommended that the Jews try non-violence against the Germans in the late 1930s. That idea did not work. Was it just a bad guess? Maybe. But Gandhi was also a vicious opponent of Jewish rights in the Levant. He's no hero as far as I am concerned. I'd like to be a moral person, and that means that I wouldn't want to be like Gandhi!

I think it may be a good idea to modify some truly counterproductive colonial boundaries of some Middle Eastern nations. But Bronner is totally unconvincing in making his case, given his terrible biases against human rights in the Middle East. Let's see, he says that "worry over the treatment of Arabs by Jews stretches back to the last century" (I think he means the nineteenth, not the twentieth). Of Arabs by Jews? Um, I suppose he could say that worry over the treatment of Germans, Poles, Russians, and others by Jews stretches back to that century and more. And that worry over the treatment of White Americans by Blacks stretches back to before the Civil War. But that statement makes the whole book look suspect: he appears to be attacking human rights with a vengeance.

The author says that there was "ethnic cleansing" in the creating of Israel, "employing rape and torture and turning those Arabs living in the new state into second-class citizens." He's implying that the Jews were the villains and the Arabs were the victims. But that's not true. Once again, the same sort of thing could be said, again untruthfully, about the behavior of Jews during World War Two. And once again, that statement is simply a vicious attack on human rights as well as on truth.

Bronner also attacks Ariel Sharon for visiting the Temple Mount (the holiest Jewish site, which happens to be in Jerusalem, which happens to be the capital of Israel). Plenty of Knesset members had been visiting the Temple Mount. Why not? But Bronner makes it look as if Sharon did something wrong to visit it. He calls it a "publicity stunt" without explaining that if Israel had tried to prevent him from going there, that would have been a rather serious attack on Jewish rights by the nation of Israel.

Israel, after being hit by a series of suicide bombings originating in Jenin, finally took some rather heroic action. It sent some ground troops to Jenin. This is a litmus test for me. Can Bronner at least praise this? No, he mocks it!

The author's ideas about land are awfully arbitrary. He shows maps that indicate, quite falsely, that Israel is expanding. That's preposterous. In 1968, Israel included all of the Sinai. It gave all that land, several times larger than the rest of Israel, to Egpyt. But Bronner only shows the tiny Israel of 1949 and claims that Israel is now bigger than that! Bronner does applaud the "Geneva Initiative" as a way to achieve peace in the region, but I think he's way off base here as well.

The author blasts authors such as Christopher Hitchens and Paul Berman simply for speaking the truth at times when George Bush might have agreed with them. Does he really think it ought to be an obligation for us to lie just so that we'll disagree with George Bush? I would think that is a truly terrible idea that would simply make us look bad. And Bronner asks us, rhetorically, what is wrong with Noam Chomsky. Well, I'll tell you what is wrong with him. Sure, Chomsky is bright and sometimes makes some good points. But on a number of issues, he is simply dishonest, and he uses that dishonesty to support those who attack human rights.

This book does not lead us on the, um, true path.

Fast Read, Brutal & Riveting, A Call for Progressive Engagement.......2005-10-30

This is an absolute gem of a book, one I was able to polish off in a couple of hours before Crossfire comes on. It is brutal and riveting, nothing less than a thoughtful manifesto calling for progressive engagement and a restoration of engaged dialog.

Here are a few of my summative notes that serve as a review of the author's key points, all of which I find to be admirable and well-documented:

1) US Democracy is in crisis, in part because the "Halliburton Administration" is comprised of several liars and thieves, among whom I would suggest Dick Cheney and Karl Rove are the worst. Their resignations, and the appointment of Senator John McCain as an ethical vice president, strike me as necessary.

2) The Democratic Party failed to understand that ideological passion and the Republican mobilization of their own base would more than crush the Democratic pragmatism, focus on the economic case, and a heroic but insufficient increase in registered voters. In essence, the Democratic Party relied on mobilization and failed to find its voice or its spine in 2000 and 2004. Even when the Democrats knew--as Greg Pabst documented--that the Florida election was stolen twice (one with the disenfranchisement of over 35,000 people of color, the second time with the rejection of over-count votes in pro-Gore countries--while revalidating them in pro-Bush counties), they failed to rise to the challenge.

3) The author is brutal in a very polite and professional way as he describes the origins of the neo-conservatives and their commitment to looting the commonwealth of the poor and middle class in order to fund wealth transfers to the already rich, and a larger garrison state with which to pursue imperial adventures.

4) The author provides a very helpful review of what Ghandi was trying to accomplish (see also my review of the DVD by that name) and what I took away from this chapter was that non-violence is not only moral, it is educational and pragmatic. It unites the oppressed and enlightens the oppressor.

5) In the chapter on reflections from a personal visit to Baghdad, the author makes it clear that on-the-ground eye witnesses could plainly see--as the UN inspectors saw and US Marine Scott Ritter said--that Iraq was no threat to the US. The educators also heard from taxi drivers and intellectuals who said plainly that the demise of Saddam would be welcome, but occupying forces would inspire a massive nationalist insurgency. How is it that neither CIA nor the White House heard these voices? We conclude that CIA has become stupid in its reliance of classified sources and fabrications from defectors seeking resettlement, while the White House is merely unethical.

6) In an overview of the geopolitics of the region, while the author does not fully examine the nefarious misbehavior and selfish refusal to help from the other Arab nations, all of which continue to refuse land or status to Palestinians, he provides a very interesting discussion of the possibility of Iraq being divided into three parts--one aligned with Turkey, another with Iran, and suggests that colonial borders should not be considered permanent--much better to accommodate, better late than never--to tribal and religious realities. He also maps the planned Israeli walls, and I can only say that I consider this a very effective exposure of the lunacy of the Israelis. Palestine should be divided in half, each half augmented by additional land from contributing adjacent states, and Jerusalem made an international city-state under a joint religion and United Nations council

7) The book concludes with a very thoughtful discussion of 9/11 and of democracy. I agree with the author when he says that 9/11 had a *basis* in the US support of the corrupt Saudis, of the Israeli persecution of the Palestinians; and of the continuing imperialist ambitions including what Al Qaeda, not the author, have called virtual colonialism. The author tells us that democratic dynamics require accountability, morality, and reciprocity, and pointedly suggests that the neo-conservatives that have hijacked the Bush Administration have replaced all three with know-nothing fundamentalism and a grotesque imperial ambition that is quite ignorant and quite craven in thinking that we can "take over" the oil and water of the Middle East, and continue to occupy any portion of it.

This book is elegant, solid common sense, capably presented.

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Witness to History, Engineer to the Future, Excels in Adversity

The book and CD put you in Apollo 13 mission control

Worthwhile Different Point of View on Apollo Era NASA

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A great, personal insight.

Apollo EECOM: Journey of a Lifetime: Apogee Books Space Series 31 (Apogee Books Space Series)
Sy Liebergot , and David M Harland
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Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles

ASIN: 1896522963

Book Description

The life story of Sy Liebergot, former NASA flight controller, provides an insider's view of Mission Control.

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Witness to History, Engineer to the Future, Excels in Adversity.......2005-08-30

The chapters about his direct involvement in Apollo as EECOM were fascinating. He accomplished his goal of adding to the historical record from his perspective. Liebergot actually had several critical moments related to Apollo 13. From memory: The failed simulation that started the concept of the LEM as a lifeboat, the cryo stir, the first recognition of there being a problem, his repeated rebuffment of seemingly ridiculous recommendations from a specific controller, and the critical decision to shut down the fuel cells and the realization that brought to others.

I found his writing style to be grittier (that is a positive comment), highlighted by the italicized side comments. I found this to be intriguing especially since he then retrospectively judged the key moments in his life. This would be similar to a person's writing in a journal to help them make sense of the world. I also took the opportunity to read Gene Kranz's book after I read Apollo EECOM and found that book to be an excellent companion and contrast. First, he is also talking about same events from within the same room, just with a different perspective. He also writes (I am sure with his coauthor's assistance), in a grammatically technical writer's way. I liked both writing styles (Liebergot's and Kranz's) very much. He also brings in Sy's involvements, again from his perspective, which dovetails nicely with the recollections in this book. Not that it was needed, it also validates Sy's version of the time. The fact that Kranz mentioned the song included on the CD-ROM made me chuckle (and I hope he gets to hear it again to make him cringe).

The sequence of his life's story is a fascinating portrayal of excelling in the face of adversity. He and his siblings had a horrible family life compounded by the economics of the times. I suspect it was the resultant aversion that pushed him all the way to California away from family and onto a path that lead to his involvement with one of the greatest endeavors man has achieved so far. While he may not be happy with individual moments in his life, as a sum, possibly with the help of the book, I believe he realizes that it has been a good life. The zenith of the human experience is when man takes tragedy and is able to look past it to convert it into something positive and fulfilling. That is the essence of Sy Liebergot's life. He chose to rise above his predicament. There are many, many people who would do well to learn from his example. In looking at his life and story, I am reminded of another book and movie, namely "Rocket Boys"/"October Sky". The difference is the extreme dysfunctionality of his home life and degree of poverty.

Equally fascinating was the accompanying CD-ROM with Mission Control voice loops from the Apollo 13 explosion timeframe. These alone would justify an interested person's purchase of the book. First, I related to the working of the problem. I get very ill, very complicated patients in my emergency department. The underlying problem is unknown. I start taking a series of actions lead by priorities and try to gain more information to better define the problem altering actions as the situation evolves. This can take anywhere from one to three hours. Sometimes the patients don't make it. Most of the time I get them stabilized and out of the department. It was this same process that I "witnessed" through the voice loops. The other perspective was that of the actual time of the unfolding crisis. Other writings, and the movie, give the impression that it was a very short time (15 minutes or so) before the lifesaving critical move to the LEM. The voice loops show that it was well over an hour.

Even though the Apollo program was 30 plus years ago, the fact that we haven't even gone back continues the weight of its accomplishments. I feel that the loss of continuity and the perspective of history and experience will severely impact the strides that we have yet to make. Works such as this one should be mandatory reading for our future space pioneers so that they will gain that needed perspective. Hopefully, it won't take an Armageddon level event to spawn the next great space engineering race.

The book and CD put you in Apollo 13 mission control.......2004-12-27

If you want to know exactly how it felt to be in mission control during the Apollo 13 mission, this is the book to get. The CD ROM has the actual recording of the mission control audio loop, just before the Apollo 13 explosion, and several hours of recording after. You can hear how fast the controllers summed up the state of the spacecraft, and how they quickly sorted through their narrowing options.

Sy provides history as to how he became a flight controller, and how his fellow controllers lived during the Apollo program days.

If you want to know what it's like to get to and be inside mission control, and actually hear what the mission control audio loops sounds like, this is a must-get book and CD package.

Worthwhile Different Point of View on Apollo Era NASA.......2004-12-24

This book is a little short (200 pages) and Sy spends almost a third of that on his troubled childhood. But is a worthwhile read for someone interested in Apollo Era NASA. Sy gives a more low level view of the operation than we have gotten from the many astronaut biographies and flight director biographies (Kraft and Kranz). I enjoyed the "extra's" that he included on the CD, particularly a humorous song from a post-Apollo 13 roast. I would not make it the first book I read about the moon program, but it is a nice collection to my NASA book collection.

ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸, Simply Brilliant. ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤.......2004-09-02

In a subject that has been charted from boundless angles in thousands of chronicles, Sy's memoir emerges as a truly brilliant account of his role in perhaps one of the most significant endeavors of humankind. Sy's book is much-much more than simply a personal account of his life and role in the space program, it is an extremely well written and compulsively honest tour de force of this history. He teaches us that the story of Apollo was not wholly isolated to the confines of the spacecraft, and that many of the real mavericks worked quietly behind complex consoles inside Mission Control, solving some of the most intricate and sometimes life threatening problems that these men faced in our quest to explore the moon.

Sy's book is in my opinion is a sobering and paramount account of the early manned space flight program from an important and vital perspective. It is a true archive of history that is told not only through narrative, illustrations, and photographs; but rather a historical archive containing audio (which is included on a wonderful CD-ROM), personal artifacts, and technical examples (brilliant panel displays) that bring this history to life. Having spent decades reading every account I can get my hands on, I can safely state that Sy's memoir will remain a solid bookend to one of America's greatest chapters in history.

A great, personal insight........2004-01-04

This book isn't one of those thick, literary historical tomes that we have seen a good many of in the last few years from former NASA managers. Rather, this feels like you have been personally invited into Sy's living room to sit on the sofa and look over his memorabilia while he tells you about it over your shoulder. It's a surprisingly frank and honest look at his life. Rather than trying to build himself up to be an historical figure, he pulls no punches with an account of a difficult, scrappy early life where he had to learn to survive his family, then work out how to leave and make something of himself. He tells this compelling story so well that I would have read it even if he had not gone on to join NASA - something I also felt when reading Scott Carpenter's account of his difficult upbringing in his recent memoir. When Liebergot moves on to his years at NASA, we get a refreshingly different account of how things worked there. Most other books on this era have been written by those in the upper echelons of management, but Liebergot here shows us what it was like for the footsoldier in the trenches, with a few little accounts of tempers lost in mission control and other disagreements that the official histories try and gloss over. Rather than do this as a tell-all, Liebergot includes his own failings in the mix - he doesn't hide the fact that he is now on his third marriage, nor the reasons. Liebergot was there for some of NASA's finest undertakings, and this book tells you what it was like from a human perspective - the weariness, the shortcomings, the oversights - that round out the picture very well.

In short, this is not a polished history of NASA at its finest hour. Rather it is a very loose, informal journey through one man's difficult life, and how he managed to wash up in the right place at the right time.

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Author Julian Evans has worked with woodlands for twenty-five years and was the UK Forestry CommissionÂ's Chief Research Officer for much of this time. In 1985 he decided to buy his own small wood in North Hampshire, fulfilling every foresterÂ's dream. Caring for the wood and its natural inhabitants using both ancient and modern skills, Evans experiences the evolving cycle of woodland life and encourages us to appreciate our environment firsthand in all seasons, all climates. Finely illustrated and including a foreword by Alan Titchmarsh, A Wood of Our Own is engaging, informative, and entertaining--aimed at everybody who enjoys the countryside.

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A layman's view of a foresters book.......1998-06-02

This book is a good introduction to the problems and joys of owning a wood. There are very few books in this area and this one was a welcomed insight. There was however very little technical information. This book was a contributing factor to buying a wood of our own.

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Malcolm X: In Our Own Image

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Growing our own: 'knowledge workers' for tomorrow.: An article from: Wood & Wood Products

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Growing our own: 'knowledge workers' for tomorrow.: An article from: Wood & Wood Products
L. Duane Griffiths
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This digital document is an article from Wood & Wood Products, published by Vance Publishing Corp. on December 1, 1997. The length of the article is 1564 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.

From the supplier: The US lacks the necessary training programs and facilities needed to develop skilled workers for the woodworking industry. Moreover, the supply of 'knowledge workers' who are adept at handling high-end technologies such as computer numerical control machining centers and computerized rip saws are declining. Woodworking companies should set the initiative in developing this type of worker.

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Title: Growing our own: 'knowledge workers' for tomorrow.
Author: L. Duane Griffiths
Publication: Wood & Wood Products (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 1997
Publisher: Vance Publishing Corp.
Volume: v102 Issue: n13 Page: p191(5)

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An authentic account of the Chinese commission: Which was sent to report on the Great Exhibition : wherein the opinion of China is shown as not corresponding at all with our own

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An authentic account of the Chinese commission: Which was sent to report on the Great Exhibition : wherein the opinion of China is shown as not corresponding at all with our own
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