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He feels a strong attraction to her. She wonders if he could be "the one." In the glamorous haze of early romantic attraction it's hard to know whether a relationship will lead to true love-or to a negative or even catastrophic relationship. This book helps men and women who want healthy and satisfying marriages identify the early warning signs of an unhealthy relationship. Dr. Warren shows readers how to hold out for God's best for their lives instead of settling for the first one to come along and outlines the factors that increase the chances for marital success. For those who want to become wiser in their relationship choices, this practical guide will help them find the love they want and avoid the pain they don't need.
Revised edition of How to Know If Someone Is Worth Pursuing in Two Dates or Less.
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If only life was so black and white........2007-09-11
The whole premise of the book is that everyone has the same definition of honesty, financial stability, spirituality ect. If you acknowledge different people have different interpratations of these things the book falls fat on its face.
MEN RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!.......2007-07-25
This positive reviews are by women who think the perfect relationship is some romance movie like Gone with the Wind! The book and the eharmony website are a waste of time and money!! You will be the most miserable of any man on the planet if you read this book and do what it tells you, I did and after several years of misery I am done with hit. Neil Clark Warred should be sued for malpractice, he is just another person willing to tell desperate people anything they want to hear to get their money even if it is not true and will end in failure!
A Book for Every Single Person.......2007-07-21
An indispensable book for any single person, whether they use it in conjunction with eHarmony.com or not. Where were you, Dr. Warren, when I was young and needed advice? I'm still married to the same man I met 46 years ago so I guess I did something right. Still the book would have been so much help.
Exceptional .......2006-11-20
Absolutely recommend it!
This book is an amazing tool to understanding yourself and the dynamics of dating. It assists you through self-discovery and how to articulate the type the person you want to spend the rest of your life with. I think every single person should read this book before making any long-term commitments! Also, if you are already in a relationship and have doubts - it can also help you identify the source of your frustrations and how to end the dating relationship before heading to marriage.
As for e-harmony - many people that say they had a bad experience is due to putting up false & unrealistic expectations for the service. Like any on-line service- you need to check & research everyone you attempt to pursing communication. E-harmony doesn't do security, investigative or credit checks so don't expect that everyone you meet will be honesty & clean. (If you read Dr. Warren message - he explains this very thorougly)Another thing to keep in mind, is that the service doesn't promise that you will meet your dream partner and happily get married. It is just a tool to help you meet additional people ideally closer to your personality that you wouldn't normally meet on a regular basis. You still have to do the work in identifying whether this person is truly the best match for you.
Be smart, wise and don't put yourself in compromising or dangerous situations.
This book will definitely help you put dating in the RIGHT PERSPECTIVE!
The title of the book should be How to Use eHarmony.......2006-10-05
I found reading this book to be a waste of time. It's a very light book and can be read cover to cover in an hour or two. The whole book reads like an ad for eHarmony. Everything in this book is geared toward how to fill out your profile on eHarmony. Just like most online dating sites, this book makes date/mate selection sound like your shopping for a new car. It makes it sound like all that is needed to find your soul mate is to figure out what you like and don't like in a partner, enter it into the computer, and poof, your soul mate will magically appear exactly to your specifications.
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Do you share a past life connection with someone special? Are you hoping to reconnect with your soul mate? In this down-to-earth, enlightening guide to karmic partnerships, Maria Shaw characterizes the many types of soul mate connections and offers advice on how to recognize your special someone.
Reuniting for love, paying a karmic debt, righting a wrong, or completing a higher purpose . . . there are many reasons why souls choose to meet again. True experiences of the author and her clients illustrate the dynamics of these powerful relationships that often involve our lovers, friends, and family. Maria Shaw also shares advice for achieving spiritual love, finding your souls purpose, ending an abusive relationship, and seeking out the soul mate of your dreams.
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Disappointing!.......2007-09-02
I was hoping that this book would be more in depth about the subject of soul mates and numerology - I was wrong. It is way too vague and wordy and not enough useful information. I'm really disappointed in this book. Since it's not a huge book I would have thought there would have been much more information - there's much better books on this subject!
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An emotional journey from new love to love that lasts forever. "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies," once declared the Greek Philosopher Aristotle. Yet, no one philosophy can truly describe love. In "Chicken Soup for the Soul Love Stories", the stories are as varied as the emotion of love itself. Readers will be treated to romantic tales of: -Puppy love that grew into mature love -Unexpected meetings that evolved into whirlwind romances and eventualy into lifelong relationships. -Men and women who had given up on love until it hit them when they least expected it -Love cynics who discovered that love can be just as good (or even better) the second time around. "Chicken Soup for the Soul Love Stories" takes readers on an emotional journey with its batch of passion-filled, uplifting love stories. Readers will enjoy reading about the romance-igniting lives of couples around the world, while being reminded of the reasons their own relationships are so special and worthy of celebration and gratitude.
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At the turn of the new millennium, the United Nations determined that world poverty would be halved by 2015. International agencies are all committed to "poverty abatement." The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have renamed their structural adjustment policies "poverty reduction strategies." But can this work? No, argues Jeremy Seabrook, not if we fail to understand the meaning of poverty.
Drawing on testimonies from around the world, as well as on the hard facts, he challenges the assumption that wealth overcomes poverty, and demonstrates that the opposite of "poor" is not "rich" but "self-reliant." Appealing passionately for a shared sense of "sufficiency," he gives verbal snapshots of people's lives to show how poverty shifts, changes and endures in response to the growth of wealth.
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Assessing Rational Expectations: Sunspot Multiplicity and Economic Fluctuations
Roger Guesnerie
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In this book Roger Guesnerie contributes to the critical assessment of the Rational Expectations hypothesis (REH). He focuses on themultiplicity question that arises in (infinite horizon) Rational Expectation models and considers the implications for a theory of endogenous fluctuations. The REH, which dominates the economic modeling of expectations in most fields of formalized economic theory, is often associated with an optimistic view of the working of the markets--a view that Guesnerie scrutinizes closely.
The book is divided into four parts. The first part uses the framework of simple models to characterize the stochastic processes that trigger self-fulfilling prophecies and examines the connections between periodic equilibria (cycles) and stochastic equilibria (sunspots). (A sunspot is a random shock uncorrelated with underlying economic fundamentals.) The second part views sunspot equilibria as overreactions triggered by small variations of intrinsic variables--rather than as fluctuations with no trigger--and looks at the consequences for a monetary theory à la Lucas. The third part develops the basic theory to encompass more complex, multidimensional systems. It focuses in particular on the special class of equilibria generating small fluctuations around a steady state. Broadening the scope, the fourth part looks at the stability of cycles, sunspots in systems with memory, and current research on rational expectations.
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Purrrfect Scottish Cats (Black & White Publishing)
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It is a little known fact that the Bard of Aryshire, Rabbie Burmese, could often be heard mewing his poems on the garden fence after a late night out with the alley cats. Or that her dislike of water made Fluffy Macdonald's bonny boat trip to Skye even more impressive. For that matter, has anyone really given Whiskers Wallace his due for being the first to utter, "Cry furdom!"? Here, twenty of Scotland's most beloved icons are transformed into cats in what has to be the most surreal and hilarious Scottish book this season.
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This comprehensive, accessible guide to Bartók and his music contains up-to-date research by a new generation of Bartók scholars. Part I sets the cultural, social and political background in Hungary at the beginning of the twentieth century, and considers Bartók's research into folk music. Part II surveys his compositional output in all genres, relating changes in style to broad aesthetic issues, his folk music studies, and his activities as a pianist, music editor and teacher. The final part considers various aspects of reception and the variety of responses to Bartók's music in Europe and the United States.
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Genre and Ethnic Collections: Collected Essays (Foundations in Library and Information Science)
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- Exceptional guide to TV branding and design
- Brand Identity For Television; With Knobs On
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Brand Identity for Television: With Knobs on
Martin Lambie-Nairn
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Exceptional guide to TV branding and design.......2005-11-22
Lambie-Nairm is one of the leading figures in the realm of motion graphics and identity for television. Even if the story of how he got there is one of a distinct reality, his experiennce is really global in terms of which creativity and strategy on the unique comunications needs of any TV channel. This book describes the finely threaded link between creativity and purpose, adorned with samples of some of the world's best TV identity design works.
Brand Identity For Television; With Knobs On.......1999-12-07
This is an extraordinary story, accompanied by intelligent design. an inspiring document of 'logic' and 'style'.
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PS2? Secret Codes 2005, Volume 1 (Bradygames Take Your Games Further)
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PS2 Secret Codes 2005, Volume 1 is an updated collection of secret codes and cheats for the most popular games released for the PlayStation 2.
This pocket guide is a gamer's ultimate code source - - tips to unlock secret characters and hidden levels, become invincible, access alternate costumes, and more!
Some of the games covered in this guide include James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon, Spider-Man 2, Finding Nemo, Hot Shots Golf Fore!, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Madden NFL 2005 and many more!
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BradyGames' Secret Codes 2005, Volume 2 includes the following:
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Secret Codes 2005, Volume 2 is the newest collection of the most sought after codes and cheats for the hottest games released for the next generation systems.
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Some of the titles covered in this comprehensive pocket guide are: Duel Masters, GoldenEye: Rogue Agent, Gran Turismo 4, NFL Street 2, Psychonauts, Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower, The Incredibles, Yu-Gi-Oh! 7 Trails to Glory: World Championship Tournament 2005, Ping Pals, and more.
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Tips for activating things such as invulnerability, invisibility, unlimited ammo, debug modes, and more.
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Plus, how to unlock characters, levels, game modes, vehicles, endings, and videos.
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Secret codes give gamers the edge needed to get the most out of their favorite games and increase replay value.
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In August 1944, Warsaw presented the last major obstacle to the Red ArmyÂ's triumphant march from Moscow to Berlin. When the Wehrmacht was pushed back to the Vistula River, the Polish Resistance poured forty thousand fighters into the streets to drive out the hated Germans. But Stalin halted the Russian offensive, allowing the Wehrmacht to regroup and destroy the city. For sixty-three days Soviet troops and other Allied forces watched from the sidelines as tens of thousands of Poles were slaughtered and Warsaw was reduced to rubble.
Like Antony BeevorÂ's bestselling The Fall of Berlin, Rising Â'44 is a brilliant narrative of one of the most dramatic episodes in twentieth-century history.
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Heroic people with criminal leaders.......2007-08-04
This is, theoretically, a book on the lift of Warsaw, nevertheless both the introductions and the last years (until 1956) they occupy more part of the book than the battle in strict sense. There are very interesting and appropriate the witnesses' comments that are inserted in the text occasionally.
Certainly the sympathies of the author for Poland and the Poles are clear and logical, but after reading this book, I remain with exhaustive information of, for example, the center of communications in London, number of operators, lines, even type of the devices and do not realize well who is the person, or persons in charge of giving the order of the raising and directly responsible for this tragedy. What yes I realize well the fact is that the persons in charge are slightly more that irresponsible they are criminals. It is not possible to give the order to get up against the Germans if no possibility of success, sacrificing the lives of hundreds of thousands of civil innocents, women and children, exhibiting them to the cruelty and clear barbarism of the Germans and especially with the precedent of events in the raising of the Jewish Guetto.
The author in Page 616 speaks " ...The damaged and discriminated could not be suitably compensated. The elderly could not be restored to their youth. The death could not be resurrected. The hope was for one thing alone: that the rising be properly remembered". And does this deserve hundreds of thousands of innocent victims? For the pride only? I think that not , strongly not. As usual he compares the communist discrimination of the postwar period with the brutal murdering made for the Germans.
He speaks about that the Risisng don't was mentioned in the Nuremberg Trial, yes, but I think that in that Trial had to be judged the polish dirigents that sent so many people to die without hope and without sense, that's also a crime against humanity.
The slaughter of more than 20.000 elders, women and children in entire quarters of Warsaw the first days of the raising for the German savages, occupy less attention and interest that the slaughter of the Polish officials in Katyn, how many Russian officials it killed Stalin? A lot of more. He was a killer especially with his own people.
After reading this book, I realize well the useless heroism of the Polish people directed by a few criminal leaders in London who led them to the suicide without any hope, only for a useless pride and also I realize well the attitude of the Russians. Independently of that his information of intelligence was very poor, what interest someone can feel in helping a person who says that tomorrow it will fight against them?
And in spite of it at the end of the raising, the Russians sent supply for air, helped with his artillery in the bank this one with the Vístiula and they even attacked, fruitlessly, the well prepared German defenses.
Certainly could they have done more, but if you were Russian, it would waste lives of Russian soldiers in rescuing someone who fought against you scantly 20 years ago in the same place, who beat the orthodox cathedral of Warsaw in (giving an example of intolerance) and that only thirty years earlier was a province of Russia and all this to rescue someone that his enemy demonstrates openly, not only of the communism, but of Russia as nation? Not, the Russians certainly are nor saints, nor idiots.
On the other hand to retain nuns, women and children with the excuse of which the Polish soldiers would fight better, or to consider the retreat for the sewers of a quarter of the combatants stopping behind to women, children and injured men so that the German savages were murdering them do not look like to me " heroic facts of war". After read this book my opinion about the polish insurgents it's considerably worst and the killing of a jew family for them it's horrible. Of course there was and there is a anti-jew sentiments in the polish people, even after the war was a pogrom in a little village and the polish killed 44 jews.
But there is a tone in the book too common unfortunately in English historians and is not only the comparison of the Nazis with the communists. but an extenuation of all the atrocities committed by the Germans and a worsening of the committed ones by the communists.
I understand, and share, with the author the friendliness for the Polish people, but the number of pages dedicated to the postwar period is very superior to dedicated to the German domain in the rest of Poland, about which almost not at all one speaks. I don't understand very well a capitle about the stalinstation till 1956 .Then I miss another capitle about the german rule in Poland that, I'm sure would be much more interesting that the period till 1956.
If we read carefully the period of the postwar period, we find facts that deny the argued for the author largely. By example, if the NKVD was so perfect , how is possible that theCol. Wolf was arrested three times, the conditions of prison in IRKA IV, half a litre of black coffe and a chunk of black bread and a bowl of soup twice a day, more a book to read every month , that conditions were bad but not worst that many common russian people at that time. A german prisoner said that although the children of the guards of the Russian prisons where he was were dying of famine never stopped giving meal to the prisoners, little meal, but it was small for all. And the prisoner who was reporting his sufferings was liberated in 1955. The Germans killed of famine in less than six months three million Russian prisoners and I do not meet anybody liberated of Auschiwtz or other german camps.
The prince Yanush R. Was consigned in a camp for Beria and so soon as 1947 he come back to Poland with Ludwik Bittner, one of the leaders of the rising. I don't see the NKVD so perfect.
Also in the postwar period a lot of Poles could emigrate, seem that the iron courtain had a lot of holes, also was allowed to foreign poles come to Poland in the 1960s.
In the 1950s many sentences in Poand were overruled and some even was granted with a sum for compensation.
When the author speaks about Lublin with the opening of Universities and a almost free live there don't said that Lublin was under soviet rule, seems a oasis without boss, but the russians were there and let that renaissance.
Of course the comunism is a horrible regime , but the live under it was by far much better that under the germans. In Dante's hell there is several circles, from better to worst.
We must not never forget that when the Canciller Willy Brandt in 1970 ( only 15 years after the end of the war ) and fell to his knees in front the Guetto Memorial the 49 % of german people judged the gesture "exaggerated" , if we do that test now, the amount of 49 % would be bigger , sure, so the germans dont'fell shame for their crimes and the one who forgets the history repeats it again.
This is a very interesting book but seems that the author hates more to the Russians that to the Germans.
Essential .......2007-03-10
This book is essential reading for anyone who is interested in The Second World War.
Not A Typical History, But Worth A Look.......2006-07-22
I picked this book up on a remainder rack because I have a long time interest in World War II and military history. It spotlights one of the tragic events of that period, when the citizens of Warsaw saw the Soviet army approaching their city, rose against their Nazi occupiers and were crushed while Stalin's army stood idle and let the Nazis crush the uprising. When they took the city, most potential resistance to Communist rule was already destroyed.
Poland was affected to a greater extent than almost any other nation. Invaded twice by the Russians and Germans, with its intellectual elite hunted down and murdered by both sides, it is amazing that the country exists at all today. One of the most haunting images of World War II was that of the Polish Lancers (elite units that were some of the best cavalry of the 19th century) charging German armored vehicles during the initial 1939 invasion and being wiped out by long distance machine gun fire.
The Soviets did a prequel of the Warsaw Uprising atrocity during the Spanish civil war, when they essentially sabotaged the loyalists and let Franco win so that the Spanish communists could never become a competitor for the title of leader of the communist world -- Read George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia.
Many readers (contrary to the author's assertion) in WW II history are sketchily aware of this uprising and the results -- and do not confuse it with the Nazi destruction of the Warsaw ghetto that occurred somewhat earlier). However, too many academics and writers tend to somewhat romanticize the Soviet era and are either consciously or unconsciously reluctant to talk about the more horrific aspects of communist culture and control.
The author was previously unknown to me, but his biography in Wikipedia indicates that he is a Welshman who spent his formative academic years in Krakow studying at the Jagiellonian University The entry doesn't say exactly when, but since he was born in 1939, it must have been during the 1960s.
Thus, the author can safely be said to be fluent and well read in Polish literature, something that few European or US academics can claim. In addition, it seems likely that during his student days, he also became fluent in Polish culture, and during the height of the Cold War era. Thus his outlook on Polish events and history can be said to be very representative of how Polish culture views the incredibly complicated history of Poland in Europe. Just as there are multiple interpretations of everyday events, there are multiple views of historical events and an honest student of history ought to seek them out.
My guess is that this book accurately represents current Polish views on their history during the events of World War II.
However, the reader should be cautioned that Davies also shares the defensive Polish view of its history of its treatment of the Jewish population, who were a sizeable minorty of the population numbered in the millions and of whom more than 90% were wiped out during the war and its aftermath. Jewish and Polish perceptions of that history are very different. The Polish view seems to admit that there were some isolated persecution by Poles, but that it may have been justified in isolated cases, and was not typical of the Polish population or that it arose from the forces of compulsion, repression and terror inflicted by the Germans or Soviets. It is certainly true that in the chaos of Nazi and Communist invasion, that the Poles were nearly as endangered as the Jews (minus the extermination camps, of course). However, the Polish view, although strongly held, appears to have a greater element of self deception than most revisionist historical views. Polish/Jewish relationships were certainly complicated and there were some bright spots and acts of heroism, but Poles and Jews were not on equal terms throughout the hundreds of years that Jews lived in the region and were not so during the war.
The author's criticisms of US and British policy towards Poland are both loud and repetitious throughout the book, but certainly deserved. Both nations had an ingrained policy of persuing self interest, and both had foreign policy cadres that viewed the events in central and eastern Europe as if they were occuring on the moon. Both nations were students of Machiavelli, Metternich and cold blooded diplomacy, and both concentrated on keeping Stalin happy and pushing the eastern front against the Nazis.
The chief merit of this book is that it spotlights a poorly documented event in history and reflects the local views of that event in a way not otherwise easily accessible to the western reader. It also demonstrates (in case you aren't already aware of it) that war is never conducted in strict black and white -- there are always impossible choices, mistakes, atrocities and disasters. The book is quirky in its organization and naming conventions, but not unreadable.
Well Written History--Structurally Flawed.......2006-03-27
Norman Davies' Rising '44 is a peculiar history. Davies' qualifications and scholarship are beyond reproach. His literary style usually has the appropriate tone for a history book that holds a reader's interest. So, why three stars? Davies' copy editor and publisher failed to do their jobs adequately.
Davies is almost apologetic for his first four chapters in his foreword (p. xi). Dedicating a chapter apiece to the allies, Germans, Soviets, and resistance leading to the Rising makes very good sense.
The book's structure is flawed by the addition of numerous one or two page vignettes. These are first person accounts sprinkled throughout the book. They are interesting in their own right but detract from the flow of the main text. I can only imagine the problems that the copy editor had working with them but I have a good idea. On page 327, readers will find a reference to a vignette named "PAST." It is missing. In places, these vignettes contribute nothing to the main body of the history and in the worst cases contradict it. One amazing contradiction is entitled POW. On page 480, the body of the history reads: "[Mauthausen-Gusen] could not formally be classed like Treblinka or Sobibor as a death camp; its clients, who were put to work in the granite quarries, were subjected to the cruellest of treatments and enjoyed no such luxury as a rapid death.... Only a handful lived to tell the tale." The reader is refered to the POW vignette on page 484, "We had no idea of how POW life looked to a 'normal' officers' camp. It turned out that it was a rich life. In our honour, the local orchestra gave an excellent classical music concert." Some vignettes are disconnected from the main history. One can ask how the reference to the SISTERS vignette fits into the Soviets' denial of a rising. All the vignettes should have been relegated to an appendix. Each vignette is separately footnoted, actually endnoted. Why, in an age of outstanding programs for typesetting books, are readers subjected to endnotes? The endnote numbering for each vignette starts with 1. The corresponding endnotes are not found with the associated chapter but are relegated to the end of the endnotes. This makes using them difficult.
A spelling error occurs on page 596: "veterans" is spelled "veteras."
I recommend Davies' Rising '44 with few reservations. The heroism of the Varsovians is inspiring. The impotence of the British and Americans to aid is infuriating. The duplicity of the Soviets is hardly surprising.
Excellent Historical Account And Analysis.......2006-03-18
Norman Davies has written an excellent, enlightening account of one of the great untold (in the USA at least) episodes of WWII: the Polish Underground's Warsaw rising against the Nazis. The Uprising of 1944 is often forgotten and easily (in the West)confused with the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943. Briefly, in the summer of 1944, with the Red Army closing on Warsaw, and the Germans barely holding a line running through the Polish Capital, the Polish Underground "Home Army" responded to a call from Stalin to rise up. For two months the Poles held the Nazis at bay in Warsaw. However, the Red Army after reaching the Vistula River and Eastern suburbs of Warsaw, decided not to support the Poles. Inevitably, Hitler's Generals eradicated the Poles and leveled Warsaw. Hundreds of thousands, mainly women and children were murdered. In addition to telling this story, Davies does a commendable job of explaining how this came about and why this catastrophe has been ignored. Davies' analysis of why we have forgotten the Rising is what I find outstanding about his work. The West did not just forget the ordeal of Poland and the Home Army, its heroic struggle, sacrifice and epic tragedy; a complex collection of factors has for a long time conspired to relegate this episode of WWII to obscurity. Davies methodically unravels this web of enormity. For one, the Rising was certainly subjected to a smear campaign by the communists. The memory of Polish Nationalism was anathema to Stalin, who sought revenge not only for the humiliation meted out to the Red Army by the Poles in 1920, but for the centuries of Polish resistance to Russian domination. The Polish postwar communist puppet state tried to discredit and obliterate the memory of the Home Army, persecuting its members. This effort was ceaseless until the fall of the Iron Curtain (Ironically, Stalin's legacy was hurried onto the trash heap of history by a Catholic Pope who was himself a witness to the Rising). Second, Davies shows persuasively that a certain amount of bad policy on the part of the Polish Government in Exile and the British and American Governments - and postwar guilt on the part of the latter two - also contributed to first the failure of the Rising, and then to its being ignored when the histories got written. No one likes to be reminded they betrayed a Friend. That is exactly what the Western Allies did to Poland. The British and Americans used Polish troops in North Africa, Italy, France and Holland. However, Western misreadings of Stalin's intentions and political ineptness on the part of the exiled Poles resulted in abandonment of what Davies calls the "first Ally" in their time of need. For instance, the Polish Parachute Brigade (attached to the British Airborne Forces) expected they would be flown in to Warsaw to fight beside the Home Army, instead they were thrown away at Arnhem. In hindsight it is very hard to believe that Roosevelt or Churchill or their advisors could have been so blind to Stalin's intentions in Europe. Norman Davies lays bare these long hidden blunders and betrayals to the light of day and shows how they doomed the heroes and the innocents of Warsaw in 1944. I recommend this book to anyone wishing to understand why history is never black and white, and how the ghosts of yesterday do come back to haunt our today.
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On the eve of his Bar Mitzvah, a boy learns about life from an old man in whose hands an antique watch reveals clues to mans relation to God. This brief tale, written with the familiar cadences of the best Mamet dialogue, moves in a mysterious journey from the intricacies of watchmaking to the horrors of Europe in the Holocaust, as the old man shares his understanding of lifes struggles and what it means to him to be a good Jew. Sultans striking images provide a counterpoint to Mamets story as gilded clocks and elaborate timepieces yield to blank watch faces, barbed wire, empty windows, and stark architectural renderings.
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A book perfect for the Bar Mitzvah boy or girl, unique!.......2000-11-17
If you know anything about David Mamet, you know he is a unique writer...and this book is no exception. Although it is titled Bar Mitzvah, it isn't the usual tale, moving from watchmaking through the Holocaust. This may sound unappealing but the main theme, what it means to be a Jew and to live a meaningful life, shine through. A gorgeous book, one I strongly feel will appreciate in value, heirloom quality. The drawings by Donald Sultan compliment the text nicely.
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The Sultan's Jew
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This pathbreaking study uses the extraordinary life of Meir Macnin, a prosperous Jewish merchant, as a lens for examining the Jewish community of Morocco and its relationship to the Sephardi world in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Macnin, a member of one of the most prominent Jewish families in Marrakesh, became the most important merchant for the sultans who ruled Morocco, and was their chief intermediary between Morocco and Europe. He lived in London for about twenty years, and then shuttled between Morocco and England for fifteen years until his death in 1835.
This book challenges accepted views of Muslim-Jewish relations by emphasizing the ambivalence in the relationship. It shows how elite Jews maneuvered themselves into important positions in the Moroccan state by linking themselves to politically powerful Muslims and by establishing key positions in networks of trade. The elite Jews of Morocco were also part of a wider Sephardi world that transcended national boundaries. However, Macnin remained more connected to Morocco, where Jews were, according to Islamic law, protégés of the ruler and still subject to specific legal disabilities. The early-nineteenth-century sultan Mawlay Sulayman confined Jews in a number of Moroccan cities to newly created Jewish quarters as part of a policy of defining boundaries between Muslims and Jews. Yet Macnin remained closely tied to royal power, and in 1822 he became the principal intermediary between Morocco and the European powers for Mawlay Sulayman’s successor, Mawlay ‘Abd al-Rahman.
At the beginning of the period covered in this book, Meir Macnin belonged to a wide, transnational Sephardi world, and moved easily between Morocco and Europe. By the end of his life, however, this Sephardi diaspora had virtually come to an end. Emancipation in Western Europe and the growing identification of European Jews with the nations in which they lived meant that their affinity to their Sephardi heritage no longer transcended their national attachments. The gap between Moroccan and European Jewry grew, and a new kind of division—between “Western” and “Oriental” Jews—now existed within the Jewish world.
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Design of Anaerobic Processes for Treatment of Industrial and Muncipal Waste, Volume VII (Water Quality Management Library)
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Rubbish!: Dirt On Our Hands and Crisis Ahead
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Rubbish, or garbage, is one of modern society’s most pressing of environmental concerns.
Rubbish! is an examination of the problem of waste — domestic and industrial — in the U.K. and elsewhere. Challenging and controversial, this is a rigorous examination of the problem of waste worldwide and the efficacy of the public and private initiatives designed to forestall a crisis fast ballooning into catastrophe.
This is the story of our rubbish — from the first human bowel movement to the littering of outer space. It is an investigation of the looming problem of waste in the 21st century — our fridge mountain; our crumbling sewers; trading waste; packaging waste; the enormity of our industrial waste; spam emails and new forms of waste; horrors of incineration . . . And it is an attempt to find a blueprint for our survival: the way our lives may have to change.
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