Toward a Safer Workplace: Reform and Deregulation of Workers' Compensation (Pioneer Paper, No. 11.)

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Financing the Metropolis

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John P Crecine
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An analysis of the measures undertaken to win new labour for the Ruhr coal production industry and train the recruits into productive and settled miners.

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Packed with naughty tips, tricks, quizzes, and advice on how to be the bad girl queen bee, this fabulous calendar is sure to inspire a year's worth of bad behavior.

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Practical and Great Fun too!!.......2003-01-26

I love this calendar! Its a great size for easy transport, and spiral bound so you can double it over while making notes. The squares for each day are nice and big so you can fit in a bunch of stuff. (Busy Busy Busy)

And of course the greatest thing about this calendar is that I get a good chuckle out of it every time I open it. If your a bad girl, or a good girl who just loves the idea of being bad- this will make you laugh all the while you're filling in dates with meetings, appointments, and hopefully a secret rendez-vous or two.

2003 will be a very bad year!.......2002-11-26

Now that I have this calendar. I love all the little tidbits of badness scattered throughout. The Bad Girl Power profiles are way cool too. Every week is filled with something really baaaaaaad to do to celebrate the Bad Life. I'd give it as a gift but I want to keep it all to myself.

great as part of the collection.......2002-09-05

I have all of Cameron Tuttle's books, so this is just as great as all the others only this is a calendar to0=)

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New softcover edition! Once seen as a punk joke, The Ramones eventually came to be taken seriously, influencing almost every garage rocker that succeeded them. The sad, exhilarating warts-and-all-rock bilgraphy tells the whole story of the band from Queens as a paradigm rock saga - a litany of drugs, fallings-out, financial catastrophes, inter-band rivalries, bad management and death.

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Best so far - but could be better.......2007-08-13

I enjoyed the book, learned some things I didn't know about the group previously. One EXTREMELY annoying item for me was the author's neverending references to the group as "da bruddas". Man, once was enough but it's used over and over for no good reason. Anyway, the best one so far in spite of this.

Great Book About a Great group.......2007-02-01

This book gives you about all that you want to know about the Ramones. It follows their lives from birth to death and has good coverage of the changing drummers. I also recommend Dee Dee's "Rock Star" book but this book is a great overview of the whole band.

Depressive but true.......2006-11-17

Not every single book I review is sent to me as a review copy by its publisher. Most times this is how it goes, but from time to time I get a copy of the book some other way. Sometimes it's a book I've bought myself and simply thought more people should know about, and sometimes the book is given to me as a gift. And this latter occasion is how I got my hands on Hey Ho Let's Go by Everett True, when my good friend and colleague Mats Eriksson simple gave the book to me at work few weeks ago.

(Mats, an associate professor in Palaeontology in the Department of Geology at Lund University, Sweden, must by the way be eligible for tons of extra metal-credit after having named a fossil, Kalloprion Kilmisteri, after Motörhead's hard-playing frontman Lemmy)

Anyhow, now I all of a sudden had a copy of Everett True's book in my hand. I've never been a devoted fan to the Ramones and I never got to see them live when they were still together and on tour, but obviously I've heard many of their tunes countless of times. Still I didn't really know too much about the band itself, its history and its members, and thus it was very exiting to read Hey Ho Let's Go, especially since it turned out to be a quite detailed and well-written biography about the band. Many people, musicians especially, consider the Ramones to be the Founding Fathers of American and British punk rock, and so it doesn't come as much of a surprise to learn that most, if not all, of the contemporary punk, rock, and metal bands could and should be very grateful to the Ramones.

Groundbreaking bands always offer the most special and fascinating stories, simply since they had that special thing which made them unique, but even though I like the Ramones as much as I did before, perhaps even more than before, I still cannot ignore the somewhat strange and unpleasant aftertaste I got from reading this book. The book in itself of the authorship of True has nothing to do with this, however. He is, after all, a highly skilled journalist of music with much experience, and the stories of Joey, Dee Dee, Johnny, and Tommy Ramone (along with the members who replaced some of the original ones as time went by) are both fascinating and quite thorough. The reader is provided with (almost) anything one could possibly want to know about the band and its ups and downs, and on a regular basis - sometimes almost too regular - fans, other musicians, tour crew, record company personal, and others are interviewed as well.

So no, the aftertaste is a result of a realization of how deep and serious the clashes between the members were, especially between Joey and Johnny, who for many years refused to speak to each other, even though the band was constantly touring around the world. I'd always believed the Ramones to be somewhat of a brotherhood, so learning about all the hatred and frustration surrounding the band was extremely unpleasant, depressing even. Still, that's how it was, so one just has to deal with it.

Considering all the pain and misery involved, it's somewhat of a miracle that the band stayed together as long as it did, and even though True deals with this issue on several occasions he's never really able to provide a satisfying answer, and this is highly unfortunate since that's really the question one wants to have an answer to after finishing Hey Ho Let's Go. This updated edition features a new chapter about Johnny Ramone, who passed away on September 15, 2004.

Great Biography of the Ramones, but True inserts a big flaw.......2005-09-20

"Hey Ho, Let's Go" is one of the best books I've read on the Ramones. It is up-to-date with the death of Johnny Ramone, and offers insight near the end on Joey Ramone's solo.

The book is like any other book-takes you from the beginnings of the Ramones to the regretful end. The book let's us see who wrote what on the first three albums (though I knew Dee Dee could not have written "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend"). And it lets you see the hardships the band experienced until the bitter end, and after: The most interesting being the short few paragraphs on the induction to the R & R Hall Of Fame.

The proplem with the book is True: Often he offers insight to each album and outsiders coated heavily with his opinion, something that I wish people didn't do when writing about like the Ramones and Zeppelin. And it's not just on one or two albums or appear once or twice; True's opinions are everywhere. The book is extremely biased with True and that didn't make me very happy.

Excepts for True's mistake, the book is excellent and has a complete discography for the completist in most of us. Gabba Gabba Good-bye.

Hey Ho, Don't Go.......2005-06-12

This is the worst rock book ever. Badly written by a Ramone wanna be, Everett True quotes such valuable resourses as fans. True is a professional writer, so you'd expect better things from him, but nope. It's just one more fan wanting to be part of the Ramones history. Unfortunately, this fan found a publisher.

Buy the End of the Century DVD. You'll learn a lot more.

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Over the last two decades, the framework of economic competitiveness has become the defining aim of education. This book thoughtfully and persuasively argues against this new vision of education.

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Very well done.......2004-05-11

For a book that covers so many disparate types of daytime programs (game shows, soap operas, sports, cartoons and kids' shows, and so on), the volume is remarkably accurate, well-written and heavily researched. You'd think the author was an expert on every genre. Maybe he is, but more likely, he just cared enough to get everything right. How refreshing.

Great.......1999-01-11

This is the must have reference for all you TV buffs. Very interesting reading, not just a boring refernce guide. I read it cover to cover.

Great book for TV buffs....higly recommended.......1998-01-14

found the book to be very thorough, reads well. Loved reading about the creation of these great daytime tv shows there casts and from the time they aired to the time they were cancelled

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Managing large projects has a lot to do with keeping track of dependencies among their components. In other words, you have to know what must be done first, before other aspects of the project can go ahead. Microsoft Project 2000 helps you identify those dependencies and monitor progress toward them, and Microsoft Project 2000 Bible can help you become an expert in using this useful program. It covers Project 2000's entire feature set clearly and completely. About the only shortcoming of this book is its lack of an evaluation version of the application on the companion CD-ROM.

Some books in the Bible Series fall into the trap of emphasizing interface documentation over practical explanations. This book avoids that snare, focusing on business goals rather than on the software itself. So sections (easily located in the index) like "Assigning Part-Time Work" and "Using the Critical Path to Shorten a Project"--in which you'll find procedures to follow and explanations of how Project complements the duties of real-life managers--are the norm. Passages on reporting and network publishing are (appropriately) more software-centric. --David Wall

Topics covered: Microsoft Project 2000 for people who use it every day to monitor and manage elaborate team efforts; Project's management of goals, tasks, resources, and actual progress; financial tracking; Project's tools for collaboration via e-mail and network publishing.

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You know it takes more than a just "do it" attitude to pull off the projects your department faces. The powerful tools packed into Microsoft Project 2000 help you meet your deadlines, build a focused team, head off problems -- and get the results you want.

Tools like wizards that automatically create charts, customize views, and link projects help you have your way with Microsoft Project 2000. Try importing files or creating macros to save yourself even more time. With this bible by your side, you'll be synchronizing tasks and making your projects flow, making you the team leader you were meant to be.

The CD-ROM features Project-related software, such as Timesheet Professional and Project Kickstart, as well as relevant templates and shareware.

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Very complete review, including Project Central.......2001-04-07

I was looking in particular for a book that, besides covering the details about Project 2000, would also dedicate enough space to covering the new Project Central feature that this software includes. Out of all the Project 2000 books I browsed before buying this one, this definitely was THE best one in this aspect. With its help we've been able to set up our Project Central at work. I highly recommend it.

Book is fine, CD is a pain.......2000-07-27

I found the text worthwhile, but the CD that comes with the book was missing an installation file, which forced me to have to install all of the programs manually. When I called IDG technical support, they said that the only fix was to go ahead and install everything manually, and there was no way to get the additional required file. I would have found it easier to put up with this nonsense if the price of the book weren't so high.

Provides a lot, but does not go far enough.......2000-06-08

Although the idea of providing resources is a good one, many of them are out of date (addresses and contact information,etc.)

I have used Project before and I am working on a fast track project and trying to learn the new features at the same time. Some of the explanations do not go far enough, but if you are new to MS Project, this is a good beginning.

Some of Microsoft's definitions of project management terms are misleading and in some cases, wrong. The publications on project management that are listed are more correct.

For Project Management Professionals (and Beginers)........2000-05-13

I liked and will recomend it to my students! This 661 pages bible is complete, usefull and actual. The Bonus CD-ROM is interesting, but don't have MS-PROJECT 2000 trial (but you can have this trial at Microsoft site). Don't miss the appendix A, Project Management Resources.

Good Book to get you up and running!.......2000-05-13

Although I've used Project 98 briefly, I just got a hold of Project 2000 and needed a book that could get me up to speed, especially for the Project Central Portion of the Software. This "Bible" is a good starting point. It's easily laid out, enabling readers to jump around from chapter to chapter reading whatever they need to do. Things are easily explained and clearly demonstarted through the use of screen shots and the such. Although the authors dedicate a chapter to teach a few basic project management tecniques at the beginning of the book, I would recommend getting a good project manangement book, such as "The Fast Foward MBA in Project Manangement" in order to learn the basics of PM. All in all, this book provides a solid foundation for learning MS Project 2000.

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On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer. Both were men of aggression and supreme courage. Both became leaders in their societies at very early ages; both were stripped of power, in disgrace, and worked to earn back the respect of their people. And to both of them, the unspoiled grandeur of the Great Plains of North America was an irresistible challenge. Their parallel lives would pave the way, in a manner unknown to either, for an inevitable clash between two nations fighting for possession of the open prairie.

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A new perspective.......2007-08-23

I have been a big fan of Ambrose and have read most of his books. I grew up in Montana and was aware of "Custer's Battlefield". The name was changed from Custer's Last Stand to the Battle of the Bighorn. Very appropriate.
Ambrose opened my eyes to the policy of the government as it related to the "Indian Wars". He does a great job in positioning both Custer and Crazy Horse throughout their lives and how they were destined to meet in SE Montana.

This book helps me understand how the Native Americans were treated and mistreated during the opening of the west.

If you are a history fan, I encourage you to read Stephen Ambose's works. His details allow you to put yourself in the shoes of an observer to history. Check out Undaunted Courage if you want to see the world through the eyes of Lewis and Clark.

Great introduction to 2 somewhat parallel lives.......2007-06-10

I went into this book primariliy interested in crazy horse, yet by about half way through i was captivated with custer. Many of Mr. Ambrose's detractors say he stretches the facts. This could easily be true, i am in no way an expert on either crazy horse nor custer. Yet when i walk away from this book i dont remember many facts but more so feel as though i have a sense of who these two individuals were and how they operated in their respective worlds. If i was writing a dissertation on the topic i probably wouldnt cite this as a source, at the same time i think this is a great introduction book to crazy horse, custer, and the indian wars. Overall its a captiviating and fun read, enjoy!

Crazy Horse and Custer.......2007-01-09

Excellent book-goes into depth about both of their lives and the parallels between them.

Death in Battle - Death in Peace.......2006-08-30

They are books like those written by Stephen Ambrose which keep the flame of my interest in reading of times and events of long ago burning. Some have accused Ambrose of taking too many liberties with the facts. To those I would say, Bah Humbug! This book is well written and worthy of the readers time, unless, of course, you are a "fact-checker", in which case the original sources, to the extent they even exist, might be more to your liking. For Orginary Joe's, like me, Mr. Ambrose has provided a good deal of reading entertainment and information. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone who wants to be transported in time and place to the high plains during the Indian Wars.

Interesting.......2006-08-04

Great study of two complex personalities. I never realized what a mysterious figure Crazy Horse was, and his integral role at the Little Big Horn. Ambrose, as usual, does phenomenal research and his gift of prose make this book a pleasure.

Crazy Horse and Custer : The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors

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First published in 1970, this extraordinary book changed the way Americans think about the original inhabitants of their country. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending 30 years later with the massacre of Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, it tells how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society. During these three decades, America's population doubled from 31 million to 62 million. Again and again, promises made to the Indians fell victim to the ruthlessness and greed of settlers pushing westward to make new lives. The Indians were herded off their ancestral lands into ever-shrinking reservations, and were starved and killed if they resisted. It is a truism that "history is written by the victors"; for the first time, this book described the opening of the West from the Indians' viewpoint. Accustomed to stereotypes of Indians as red savages, white Americans were shocked to read the reasoned eloquence of Indian leaders and learn of the bravery with which they and their peoples endured suffering. With meticulous research and in measured language overlaying brutal narrative, Dee Brown focused attention on a national disgrace. Still controversial but with many of its premises now accepted, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee has sold 5 million copies around the world. Thirty years after it first broke onto the national conscience, it has lost none of its importance or emotional impact. --John Stevenson

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Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times called "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking....Impossible to put down"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. For this elegant thirtieth-anniversary edition -- published in both hardcover and paperback -- Brown has contributed an incisive new preface.Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated. A unique and disturbing narrative told with force and clarity, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee changed forever our vision of how the West was really won.

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BURY MY HEART ! (the truth of how our government "won" the west).......2007-10-10

I first read Dee Brown's book, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee (1970) as a college assignment. It changed the way I looked at America/our country, America/our history, and America/our land. The book is subtitled "An Indian History Of The American West", and focuses on the period of 1860 to 1890. This was after "The Trail Of Tears" of the 1830s, when the Cherokee, Choctaw, and other Indian nations were forced against their will to evacuate the eastern United States and move west. The book covers the Apaches, the Navajo, the Cheyenne, the Nez Percez, and the Sioux, among others. The wars, the injustices, and the sad fate of men, women, and children who died trying to pack up and move their lives yet once again. Brown doesn't portray the Indians as saints, either, but only as people with limited resources who, too many times, trusted the promises of a government that would, time and time again, go back on it's word, and forcibly humiliate them. Brown also points out that sometimes the Indians overreacted by attacking innocent non-military settlements. Mostly the book is a concise account of the real Manifest Destiny story, and it expels the myths of the old American History 101 textbook, and the romantic Hollywood cowboy/injun-fighter version of our history. It's a tragic and cruel story, really. It's the true story of the progress of one generation of people at the expense of a civilization. Unfortunately that progress was paved with broken promises, injustice, and lives forever lost.

A Wake-up Call for Americans .......2007-09-05

I just (July 2007) acquired my new copy coming from Amazon. I lost my old copy in 1995. I was not naive about politics and government in 1995. Any scintillas of trust in politics and government,are now gone for even more different reasons. This book seems to keep me awake and keeps my ears wider open to what can happen in this country and this world. It is not just about the shameful and bloody acts in our westward expansion. The word "treaty" from these times is a joke. I can also see more about international expansions. America makes large wrongs, as do other countries do to their own people in history. My heart feels buried because Americans, we, made such innumerable, horrendous and cruel acts. This book remains to me as a great "jolt" to my consciousness. He put together a great example of what America did do to the Native American Peoples. Look at the status of the Native American Peoples who are left today.

Original Eye-Opener.......2007-08-03

This book was and contines to be a wake-up call to the asleep teaching of American History. Especially that of Native Americans and most notably our utter ignorance of our history with Latin America.

A great book.......2007-07-01

Bury my heart at wounded knee is a oustanding account of native american history. Very informative and captivating, piquing my interest in native american's. The words tell of a people heroic,caring,hospitable, and understanding almost pushed to the point of annihilation at the hands of conquistadors,whites and others. Sadness,anger,hate, and sympathy are just some of the feelings brought out by reading this book. If you want an unflinching account of native american history this a great place to start.

bury my heart at wounded knee.......2007-06-27

I was told to read this book as i like to read about american history. this is one of the best book i have read. dee brown really did a lot of backgroud work on it .

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The worst "history" of the Indian Wars ever written.
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BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE is an eloquent, fully-documented account of the systematic destruction of American Indians during the second half of the 19th century.

Using council records, autobiographies and other firsthand descriptions, Dee Brown allows the great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux and Cheyenne to tell us about the battles, massacres and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated. Sadly, this is how the west was really won.

"Fascinating and painful." (The Wall Street Journal)

"Strongly and ardently written." (The New Yorker)

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Terrible!.......2005-10-10

"BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE" was assigned as my 9th grade Honors U.S. History II summer reading assignment. My class was told that it would help to lead us into this chapter in our history class. The first day of school, the teacher asked us how the book was coming along and found out firsthand just how open a class we are. We all hated it. It was terrible! Every chapter tells a different tribe's story, but it was all the same. This book was so repetitive. There is a fight, there is a treaty, the whites break the treaty, there is another fight, and the Indians endure a terrible massacre. I was saddened to read about the poor Indians, but it got a little old after the first 5 times or so. Many of the people in my class are having so much trouble getting through the book, that they are either skimming through the book and risking the bad grade, or are buying the summary of each chapter off of a website. The review on the front of the book reads, "...Impossible to put down." I found this true because after around 20 pages of reading this book, I would fall asleep with the book in my hand. If you are planning to read this book, please understand how repetitive it is and rethink your decision.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.......2003-05-12

Absolutely one of the most thought provoking books I have read. I enjoyed this book so much I did not want to put it down nor have it end.

The Native American's Perspective.......2000-06-21

This book is essentially a collection of short narrative about the struggles of various Native American cultures in what became the United States. The book is written from the perspective of the Native Americans, and thus has a different emphasis than many of today's high school U.S. History texts (at least not the same emphasis as mine had). I really enjoyed the reading. It was new to hear the side of the story we almost never consider. I would recommend this book to anyone.

The worst "history" of the Indian Wars ever written........1999-05-24

Apparently Dee Brown thought the sufferings of 19th-century American Indians weren't ghastly enough to impress hippie readers back in the Age of Aquarius, so he proceeds to fake things. Brown doesn't merely "slant" things to a degree that amounts to a hallucinatory experience, but makes things up outright. Anxious to make G.A. Custer look bad for the Washita attack, he invents casualty figures, claiming that Custer killed 103 Cheyennes, only eleven of whom were men! (As anthropologist John Greenway observed, massacres of Indians, in the neononsense of Brown and his associates, are not indiscriminate, but rigorously discriminate, consisting solely of women and children.) Brown either covers up Indian atrocities (particularly those of the Apaches) or tries to lie his way out of them by providing some bogus excuse; according to him, the Sioux's Minnesota massacre of some 400 white settlers one fine day in 1862 simply never happened.

He can't even get the small parts right, even depicting Custer's men as carrying sabers at the Little Bighorn. One can find out nothing about the American Indians of the West from reading Brown's book, perhaps because he's not really interested in them save as victims for his guilt-stricken white readership.

As for Brown's claim that his book is an "Indian history," based on Indian accounts gathered at treaty councils or immured in obscure government documents, this is but another falsehood. He could have written the thing in two weeks, ripping off standard books in print -- including Custer's memoir "My Life on the Plains"! No original research was involved.

This is a MUST read book!.......1999-03-27

As I read this book of unimaginable hardship for the American Indians, my very soul was pained. For it offers the most truthful history of the removal of the Indians from THEIR homeland I have ever read. My heart aches with the knowledge that my anscestors lived both sides of the war mentioned in this book. My blood is thick with Irish and Cherokee...ironic, isn't it? I, as so many others I am sure, feel torn by the horror that the first Americans had to endure at the hands of those who set up colonies here. This is the first book I have read that tells the story from the view of the Natives instead of the white man. I am proud of my Native American heritage, therefore, I feel that this book is of ultimate importance to those of us who yearn for understanding. While I am hurt and somewhat angered by the history, it is imperitive that I learn both sides of this story. Unfortunately, the only history offered in school is one-sided, thus, imperfect. Let us all long to hear the songs of the first true Americans...The Native American Indians. When you have read this book in its entirety, your understanding will be opened. If we had only listened to "those savages" our respect for the land would be great and our natural resources wouldn't be at risk today. Be prepared to feel the emotions of a multitude; raped, murdered, starved, enslaved and stripped of dignity. This book is definitely one that should hold a prestigious place in every library in America!

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An Excellent Account of American Native History!!!!

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Dee Brown
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An Excellent Account of American Native History!!!!.......2007-07-12

The Indians but I call them American Natives were here in America before anybody else. Sadly, the fate of the American Natives is that there are fewer than them around. Imagine that only a couple hundred years ago, there were millions of proud American Natives with a rich culture. The author, Dee Brown, constructs a very well researched book about the history of American Natives or Indians of the American West. Much of the Americas were home to the natives whether it is America, Canada, Central, and South Americas. The fate of the American Natives in history is crucial to understanding our own fate. The book has several pictures of well-known American Natives who helped change the fate of our history like Geronimo, Pocahontas, etc.

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"The powerful story that haunts the nation"

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Dee Brown
Manufacturer: Holt, Rinehart & Winston
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000P505FA

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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000NYD758

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