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0873386523 | New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier: Migration and Settlement of Worthington, Ohio
| Virginia E. McCormick served on the faculties of Pennsylvania State University, Iowa State University, and, most recently, Ohio State University. Her previous books include Farm Wife: A Self Portrait, 1886-1896 and Scioto Company Descendants: Genealogies of the Original Proprietors of Worthington, Ohio./i>Robert W. McCormick is professor emeritus and former assistant vice president for continuing education at Ohio State University. He is the author of Cockney: The Story of the 696th Armored Field Artillery Battalion in World War II.The McCormicks are coauthors of A. B. Graham: Country Schoolmaster and Extension Pioneer; Worthington Landmarks: Photo-Essays of Historic Worthington Properties; and Probing Worthington's Heritage. | [
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Virginia E. McCormick served on the faculties of Pennsylvania State University, Iowa State University, and, most recently, Ohio State University. Her previous books include Farm Wife: A Self Portrait, 1886-1896 and Scioto Company Descendants: Genealogies of the Original Proprietors of Worthington, Ohio./i>Robert W. McCormick is professor emeritus and former assistant vice president for continuing education at Ohio State University. He is the author of Cockney: The Story of the 696th Armored Field Artillery Battalion in World War II.The McCormicks are coauthors of A. B. Graham: Country Schoolmaster and Extension Pioneer; Worthington Landmarks: Photo-Essays of Historic Worthington Properties; and Probing Worthington's Heritage. | 0 |
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| Heavy duty construction plus innovative design equals outstanding product performance. Made from sturdy, heavy duty cast aluminum housing combined with unique "angle feed" slicing surface makes slicing easier. Easy to use thickness adjustment and quality, precision crafted Solingen stainless steel cutting blade helps produce perfect cuts. Dual switch safety feature ensures safety during operation. Unit disassembles easily and all removable parts are dishwasher safe, except control panel. 90 watt A/C motor. Gray | [
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0385334338 | Darkest Fear : A Myron Bolitar Novel
| Myron Bolitar's father's recent heart attack brings Myron smack into a midlife encounter with issues of adulthood and mortality. And if that's not enough to turn his life upside down, the reappearance of his first serious girlfriend is. The basketball star turned sports agent, who does a little detecting when business is slow, is saddened by the news that Emily Downing's 13-year-old son is dying and desperately needs a bone marrow transplant; even if she did leave him for the man who destroyed his basketball career, he wouldn't wish tsuris like that on anyone. And he's not at all interested in getting involved with Emily again, not even to track down the one mysterious donor who may be able to save the boy. But when Myron learns that Jeremy Downing is his own son, conceived the night before Emily and Greg Downing married, he embarks on a search for someone who disappeared a lifetime ago. And what he finds leads him to a powerful family determined to keep an old secret, a disgraced reporter who may have plagiarized a novel to create a serial killer, a very interested FBI agent, and a missing child. This is the seventh outing in a series that's been gaining in popularity since Bolitar's first appearance, in Harlan Coben's Deal Breaker. Myron's a bit of a baby, but he's not afraid to get rough when the situation calls for it, he's eminently likable, and his heart's in the right place. The fireworks are supplied by his friend and partner, Win, who really deserves a series of his own, and Esperanza, the lesbian wrestler-lawyer who has finally talked Myron into making her a partner in the business. Like Coben's other Bolitar novels, she's worth every penny. --Jane Adams Book seven in Coben's wonderfully rich series (after 1999's The Final Detail), which features sports agent Myron Bolitar, former basketball player and totally believable human being, is all about fathers, sons and the intricate and often painful chains that link them together. Myron, who has just moved out of his parents' house at the age of 34, is worried about his father's health after a heart attack, but it's hard for either of them to talk about the older man's condition. Myron tends to have long relationships with women that end in tears. ("You're in your mid-thirties, single, sensitive, and you like show tunes," says his current lover, a troubled television star. "If you were a better dresser, I'd say you were gay.") Emily, his college girlfriend from Duke who dumped him for a more successful basketball rival, re-enters the picture to tell him that her critically ill 13-year-old son needs a bone marrow transplant, but the only suitable registered donor has disappeared. Can Myron find him? And, by the way--Myron is the boy's real father. The search takes Myron deep into some decades-old unsolved crimes involving another father and son--a sadistic deranged killer and a conflicted newspaper columnist. Myron's deadly preppy friend, Win, is on hand to supply his own frightening brand of violence, and the gorgeous Esperanza Diaz, the former wrestler who's now a full partner in MB SportsReps, supplies wisdom as well as glamour. But the heart of the novel is, as always, the fallible but infinitely appealing, accessible figure of Myron Bolitar--a modern Don Quixote complete with knee brace and cell phone, ready to take on the world's problems. (June) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. YA-Struggling to keep his sports agency afloat, Myron Bolitar is not thrilled to have a former girlfriend resurface after many years. Sadly, her 13-year-old son desperately needs a bone-marrow transplant from a person who has mysteriously disappeared. The woman asks for Myron's help in locating the missing donor and confides to him that he is the boy's father. Against his better judgment, the protagonist begins to search Manhattan sports agent Myron Bolitar is shocked when his former college lover informs him he is the father of her 13-year-old son, who has anemia. But the girlfriend--now inimically divorced from her husband--only uses that fact to convince him to locate the boy's bone-marrow donor, who has disappeared. Bolitar's subsequent quest pits him against a wealthy, publicity-shy, and bitterly scrapping family with hitherto secret connections to a crazed kidnapper. Crisp, focused prose, a wisecracking but gallant hero, and a busy plot make this essential for most collections. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. Sports agent Myron Bolitar is busy hustling new clients and schmoozing old ones when his first love drops back into his life. She has some news for Myron: she broke up with Greg, and her son, who is dying of a rare form of anemia, is also Myron's son. The boy, Jeremy, needs a bone marrow transplant if his life is to be saved. A possible donor has disappeared. Will Myron help? The search points to the son of powerful East Coast parents, but they aren't talking. Then Jeremy is kidnapped by a serial killer who seems intent on psychologically torturing his victims' families. The Bolitar thrillers are always leavened with humor, no matter how grim the content, and this one is no exception. Even so, the darkness of the plot and the seriousness of the theme--the reponsibilities of parenthood--give this installment added impact. Thought-provoking issues and mind-numbing terror made more real by their human context. Wes LukowskyCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved Years after a mauled knee ended his basketball career in his first preseason game, sports agent Myron Bolitar is still taking body blows. The latest is the news that he has a son by Emily Downing, the college sweetheart whose wedding to rival hoopster Greg Downing he celebrated perhaps too vigorously with her the night before. Emilys kept her secret for 13 years, but now that Jeremys been diagnosed with life-threatening Fanconi anemia, she begs his help in locating a bone-marrow donor whod be a perfect match for their son if only he hadnt vanished. And it gets worse. Myrons search for the missing donor swiftly drags him into the nightmare world of a serial kidnapper whose whispered phone mantra to his victims loved onesSow the seedshas been spreading terror for years; to the reporter whose exclusive stories on the kidnapper sent his career soaring before wrecking it and killing his girlfriend; and to the obscenely wealthy Lex family, whose members arent shy about using their money to destroy anyone who crosses their pathanyone like Myron, for instance. As the complications deepen, the oppressively playful badinage of the opening chapters falls away, revealing Coben (The Final Detail, 1999, etc.) once again as one of the most inventive plotters in the businessuntil he tries one spin too many with an epilogue thats too twisty, too sentimental, and way too long. Even so, Myron runs rings around most of the tough-guy competition in the amateur division, like a class clown whos much more than just a funny face. -- Copyright 2000 Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. Harlan Coben and the Myron Bolitar Novels:The world needs to discover Harlan Coben.He's smart, he's funny, and he has something to say.--Michael ConnellyIn a genre crowded with accidental detectives who seem invented only to lure cat-loving vegetarians and other special-interest readers, Myron Bolitar stands out.--USA TodayDon't let Coben's wry observations fool you.They gift wrap keen insights into our society....--The Washington Post Book WorldPoignant and insightful...Myron is gallant, likable and delightfully original.--Los Angeles TimesCoben has melded sly humor, sophisticated plotting, and solid storytelling with bizarre yet believable characters.--Chicago TribuneBottom line: Slam dunk suspense from smart aleck sleuth.--People Magazine Beach Pick of the Week 6 1.5-hour cassettes --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Edgar Award-winner Harlan Coben is at his electrifying best in his latest novel--a dazzling tale of seething mystery and dark family secrets. In Darkest Fear, Myron Bolitar faces the most emotionally shattering case of his career. And it all begins when Myron's ex-girlfriend tells him he is a father--of a dying thirteen-year-old boy....Myron's sports agency is struggling. Now more than ever Myron needs to keep his eye on the ball, sign up some big-name clients, and turn away from the amateur detective work that is taking precious time away from the agency. But life is not going according to plan. Myron's father, recently recovered from a heart attack, is facing his own mortality--and forcing Myron to face it too. Then comes another surprise. Emily Downing, Myron's college sweetheart, reappears in his life with devastating news: Her thirteen-year-old son Jeremy is gravely ill and can be saved only by a bone-marrow transplant--from a donor who has vanished without a trace. And before Myron can absorb this revelation, Emily hits him with an even bigger shocker: Jeremy is Myron's son, conceived the night before Emily's wedding to another man.Staggered by the news, Myron plunges into a search for the missing donor. But for Myron, finding the only person in the world who can save a boy's life means cracking open a mystery as dark as it is heartbreaking--a mystery that involves a broken family, a brutal kidnapping spree, and a cat-and-mouse game between an ambitious reporter and the FBI. Somewhere in the sordid mess is the man who once signed his name to a bone-marrow donor's registry, then disappeared. And as doubts emerge about Jeremy's true paternity, a child vanishes, igniting a chain reaction of truth and revelation that will change everyone's life forever.At once a riveting mystery and a spellbinding journey into the secrets that haunt families, lovers, and friends, Darkest Fear proves once again that Harlan Coben is a master storyteller like no other--and one of the most original talents in suspense fiction today. Harlan Coben and the Myron Bolitar Novels:"The world needs to discover Harlan Coben. He's smart, he's funny, and he has something to say."--Michael Connelly"In a genre crowded with accidental detectives who seem invented only to lure cat-loving vegetarians and other special-interest readers, Myron Bolitar stands out."--USA Today"Don't let Coben's wry observations fool you. They gift wrap keen insights into our society...."--The Washington Post Book World"Poignant and insightful...Myron is gallant, likable and delightfully original."--Los Angeles Times"Coben has melded sly humor, sophisticated plotting, and solid storytelling with bizarre yet believable characters."--Chicago Tribune"Bottom line: Slam dunk suspense from smart aleck sleuth."--People Magazine Beach Pick of the Week Harlan Coben is the author of six previous novels:The Final Detail, One False Move, Back Spin, the Edgar Award and Shamus Award-winning Fade Away, Drop Shot, and Deal Breaker, which won an Anthony Award and received an Edgar Award nomination.He lives in New Jersey with his wife, daughter, and two sons.His e-mail address is bolitar@aol.com.Visit his website at www.harlancoben.com. An hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like a urinal cake.Well? Mom prompted.Myron battled his throat, won a costly victory, swallowed. Not bad.Mom shook her head, disappointed.What?I'm a lawyer, Mom said. You'd think I'd have raised a better liar.You did the best you could, Myron said.She shrugged and waved a hand at the, uh, pastry. It's my first time baking, bubbe. It's okay to tell me the truth.It's like biting into a urinal cake, Myron said.A what?In men's public bathrooms. In the urinals. They put them there for the smell or something.And you eat them?No--Is that why your father takes so long in there? He's having a little Tastykake? And here I thought his prostate was acting up.I'm joking, Mom.She smiled through blue eyes tinged with a red that Visine could never hope to get out, the red you can only get through slow, steady tears. Normally Mom was heavily into histrionics. Slow, steady tears were not her style. So am I, Mr. Smarty Pants. You think you're the only one in this family with a sense of humor?Myron said nothing. He looked down at the, uh, pastry, fearing or perhaps hoping it might crawl away. In the thirty-plus years his mother had lived in this house, she had never baked -- not from a recipe, not from scratch, not even from one of those Pillsbury morning croissant thingies that came in small mailing tubes. She could barely boil water without strict instructions and pretty much never cooked, though she could whip up a mean Celeste frozen pizza in the microwave, her agile fingers dancing across the numerical keypad in the vein of Nureyev at Lincoln Center. No, in the Bolitar household, the kitchen was more a gathering place -- a Family Room Lite, if you will -- than anything related to even the basest of the culinary arts. The round table held magazines and catalogs and congealing white boxes of Chinese takeout. The stovetop saw less action than a Merchant-Ivory production. The oven was a prop, strictly for show, like a politician's Bible.Something was definitely amiss.They were sitting in the living room with the dated pseudo-leather white modular couch and aqua-tinged rug whose shagginess reminded Myron of a toilet-seat cover. Grown-up Greg Brady. Myron kept stealing glances out the picture window at the For Sale sign in the front yard as though it were a spaceship that had just landed and something sinister was about to step out.Where's Dad?Mom gave a weary wave toward the door. He's in the basement.In my room?Your old room, yes. You moved out, remember?He did -- at the tender age of thirty-four no less. Childcare experts would salivate and tsk-tsk over that one -- the prodigal son choosing to remain in his split-level cocoon long after the deemed appropriate deadline for the butterfly to break free. But Myron might argue the opposite. He might bring up the fact that for generations and in most cultures, offspring lived in the familial home until a ripe old age, that adopting such a philosophy could indeed be a societal boom, helping people stay rooted to something tangible in this era of the disintegrating nuclear family. Or, if that rationale didn't float your boat, Myron could try another. He had a million.But the truth of the matter was far simpler: He liked hanging out in the burbs with Mom and Dad -- even if confessing such a sentiment was about as hip as an Air Supply eight track.So what's going on? he asked.Your father doesn't know you're here yet, she said. He thinks you're not coming for another hour.Myron nodded, puzzled. What's he doing in the basement?He bought a computer. Your father plays with it down there.Dad?My point exactly. The man can't change a lightbulb without a manual -- all of a sudden he's Bill Gates. Always on the nest.The Net, Myron corrected.The what?It's called the Net, Mom.I thought it was nest. The bird's nest or something.No, it's Net.Are you sure? I know there's a bird in there somewhere.The Web maybe, Myron tried. Like with a spider.She snapped her fingers. That's it. Anyway your father is on there all the time, weaving the Web or whatever. He chats with people, Myron. That's what he tells me. He chats with complete strangers. Like he used to do with the CB radio, remember?Myron remembered. Circa 1976. Jewish Dads in the suburbs checking for smokeys on the way to the delicatessen. Mighty convoy of Cadillac Sevilles. Ten-four, good buddy.And that's not all, she went on. He's typing his memoirs. A man who can't scribble down a grocery list without consulting Strunk and White suddenly thinks he's an ex-president.They were selling the house. Myron still could not believe it. His eyes wandered about the overly familiar surroundings, his gaze getting snagged on the photographs running up the stairwell. He saw his family mature via fashion -- the skirts and sideburns lengthening and shortening, the quasi-hippie fringes and suede and tie-dyes, the leisure suits and bell-bottoms, the frilly tuxedos that would be too tacky for a Vegas casino -- the years flying by frame by frame like one of those depressing life insurance commercials. He spotted the poses from his basketball days -- a sixth-grade suburban-league foul shot, an eighth-grade drive to the hoop, a high school slam dunk -- the row ending with Sports Illustrated cover shots, two from his days at Duke and one with his leg in a cast and a large-fonted IS HE FINISHED? emblazoned across his knee-cast image (the answer in the mind's eye being an equally large-fonted YES!).So what's wrong? he asked.I didn't say anything was wrong.Myron shook his head, disappointed. And you a lawyer.Setting a bad example?It's no wonder I never ran for higher office.She folded her hands on her lap. We need to chat.Myron didn't like the tone.But not here, she added. Let's take a walk around the block.Myron nodded and they rose. Before they reached the door, his cell phone rang. Myron snatched it up with a speed that would have made Wyatt Earp step back. He put the phone to his ear and cleared his throat.MB SportsReps, he said, silky-smooth, professional-like. This is Myron Bolitar speaking.Nice phone voice, Esperanza said. You sound like Billy Dee ordering two Colt 45s.Esperanza Diaz was his longtime assistant and now sports-agent partner at MB SportsReps (M for Myron, the B for Bolitar -- for those keeping score).I was hoping you were Lamar, he said.He hasn't called yet?Nope.He could almost see Esperanza frown. We're in deep doo-doo here, she said.We're not in deep doo-doo. We're just sucking a little wind, that's all.Sucking a little wind, Esperanza repeated. Like Pavarotti running the Boston Marathon.Good one, Myron said.Thanks.Lamar Richardson was a power-hitting Golden Glove shortstop who'd just become a free agent -- free agent being a phrase agents whisper in the same way a mufti might whisper Praise Allah. Lamar was shopping for new representation and had whittled his final list down to three agencies: two supersized conglomerates with enough office space to house a Price Club and the aforementioned pimple-on-the-buttocks but oh-so-personal MB SportsReps. Go, pimple-butt!Myron watched his mother standing by the door. He switched ears and said, Anything else?You'll never guess who called, Esperanza said.Elle and Claudia demanding another menage a trois?Oooo, close.She would never just tell him. With his friends, everything was a TV game show. How about a hint? he said.One of your ex-lovers.He felt a jolt. Jessica.Esperanza made a buzzing noise. Sorry, wrong bitch.Myron was puzzled. He'd only had two long-term relationships in his life: Jessica on and off for the past thirteen years (now very off). And before that, well, you'd have to go back to...Emily Downing?Esperanza made a ding-ding noise.A sudden image pierced his heart like a straight-blade. He saw Emily sitting on that threadbare couch in the frat basement, smiling that smile at him, her legs bent and tucked under her, wearing his high school varsity jacket that was several sizes too big, her gesturing hands slipping down and disappearing into the sleeves.His mouth went dry. What did she want?Don't know. But she said that she simply had to talk to you. She's very breathy, you know. Like everything she says is a double entendre.With Emily, everything was.She good in the sack? Esperanza asked.Being an overly attractive bisexual, Esperanza viewed everyone as a potential sex partner. Myron wondered what that must be like, to have and thus weigh so many options, and then he decided to leave that road untraveled. Wise man.What did Emily say exactly? Myron said.Nothing specific. She j... The comedic adventures of sports agent Myron Bolitar take a dark turn in the seventh book in his series when Bolitar and friends face a case of a dying child and a serial kidnapper. Myron's old college sweetheart has just told Myron that he is the father of her 13-year-old son, now dying of Fanconi anemia. Only a bone marrow transplant can save the boy, and the only donor has mysteriously disappeared. Jonathan Marosz manages an array of characters-- both good and evil--with richness of vocal tones and color, while giving the third-person narrator a journalistic, almost distant voice. The whole thing works magnificently as Myron takes on the issues of fathers, sons, masculinity, and violence. Marosz's reading shows the humor, the depth, and the vivid storytelling skills of the author. S.E.S. AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. | [
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Myron Bolitar's father's recent heart attack brings Myron smack into a midlife encounter with issues of adulthood and mortality. And if that's not enough to turn his life upside down, the reappearance of his first serious girlfriend is. The basketball star turned sports agent, who does a little detecting when business is slow, is saddened by the news that Emily Downing's 13-year-old son is dying and desperately needs a bone marrow transplant; even if she did leave him for the man who destroyed his basketball career, he wouldn't wish tsuris like that on anyone. And he's not at all interested in getting involved with Emily again, not even to track down the one mysterious donor who may be able to save the boy. But when Myron learns that Jeremy Downing is his own son, conceived the night before Emily and Greg Downing married, he embarks on a search for someone who disappeared a lifetime ago. And what he finds leads him to a powerful family determined to keep an old secret, a disgraced reporter who may have plagiarized a novel to create a serial killer, a very interested FBI agent, and a missing child. This is the seventh outing in a series that's been gaining in popularity since Bolitar's first appearance, in Harlan Coben's Deal Breaker. Myron's a bit of a baby, but he's not afraid to get rough when the situation calls for it, he's eminently likable, and his heart's in the right place. The fireworks are supplied by his friend and partner, Win, who really deserves a series of his own, and Esperanza, the lesbian wrestler-lawyer who has finally talked Myron into making her a partner in the business. Like Coben's other Bolitar novels, she's worth every penny. --Jane Adams Book seven in Coben's wonderfully rich series (after 1999's The Final Detail), which features sports agent Myron Bolitar, former basketball player and totally believable human being, is all about fathers, sons and the intricate and often painful chains that link them together. Myron, who has just moved out of his parents' house at the age of 34, is worried about his father's health after a heart attack, but it's hard for either of them to talk about the older man's condition. Myron tends to have long relationships with women that end in tears. ("You're in your mid-thirties, single, sensitive, and you like show tunes," says his current lover, a troubled television star. "If you were a better dresser, I'd say you were gay.") Emily, his college girlfriend from Duke who dumped him for a more successful basketball rival, re-enters the picture to tell him that her critically ill 13-year-old son needs a bone marrow transplant, but the only suitable registered donor has disappeared. Can Myron find him? And, by the way--Myron is the boy's real father. The search takes Myron deep into some decades-old unsolved crimes involving another father and son--a sadistic deranged killer and a conflicted newspaper columnist. Myron's deadly preppy friend, Win, is on hand to supply his own frightening brand of violence, and the gorgeous Esperanza Diaz, the former wrestler who's now a full partner in MB SportsReps, supplies wisdom as well as glamour. But the heart of the novel is, as always, the fallible but infinitely appealing, accessible figure of Myron Bolitar--a modern Don Quixote complete with knee brace and cell phone, ready to take on the world's problems. (June) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. YA-Struggling to keep his sports agency afloat, Myron Bolitar is not thrilled to have a former girlfriend resurface after many years. Sadly, her 13-year-old son desperately needs a bone-marrow transplant from a person who has mysteriously disappeared. The woman asks for Myron's help in locating the missing donor and confides to him that he is the boy's father. Against his better judgment, the protagonist begins to search Manhattan sports agent Myron Bolitar is shocked when his former college lover informs him he is the father of her 13-year-old son, who has anemia. But the girlfriend--now inimically divorced from her husband--only uses that fact to convince him to locate the boy's bone-marrow donor, who has disappeared. Bolitar's subsequent quest pits him against a wealthy, publicity-shy, and bitterly scrapping family with hitherto secret connections to a crazed kidnapper. Crisp, focused prose, a wisecracking but gallant hero, and a busy plot make this essential for most collections. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. Sports agent Myron Bolitar is busy hustling new clients and schmoozing old ones when his first love drops back into his life. She has some news for Myron: she broke up with Greg, and her son, who is dying of a rare form of anemia, is also Myron's son. The boy, Jeremy, needs a bone marrow transplant if his life is to be saved. A possible donor has disappeared. Will Myron help? The search points to the son of powerful East Coast parents, but they aren't talking. Then Jeremy is kidnapped by a serial killer who seems intent on psychologically torturing his victims' families. The Bolitar thrillers are always leavened with humor, no matter how grim the content, and this one is no exception. Even so, the darkness of the plot and the seriousness of the theme--the reponsibilities of parenthood--give this installment added impact. Thought-provoking issues and mind-numbing terror made more real by their human context. Wes LukowskyCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved Years after a mauled knee ended his basketball career in his first preseason game, sports agent Myron Bolitar is still taking body blows. The latest is the news that he has a son by Emily Downing, the college sweetheart whose wedding to rival hoopster Greg Downing he celebrated perhaps too vigorously with her the night before. Emilys kept her secret for 13 years, but now that Jeremys been diagnosed with life-threatening Fanconi anemia, she begs his help in locating a bone-marrow donor whod be a perfect match for their son if only he hadnt vanished. And it gets worse. Myrons search for the missing donor swiftly drags him into the nightmare world of a serial kidnapper whose whispered phone mantra to his victims loved onesSow the seedshas been spreading terror for years; to the reporter whose exclusive stories on the kidnapper sent his career soaring before wrecking it and killing his girlfriend; and to the obscenely wealthy Lex family, whose members arent shy about using their money to destroy anyone who crosses their pathanyone like Myron, for instance. As the complications deepen, the oppressively playful badinage of the opening chapters falls away, revealing Coben (The Final Detail, 1999, etc.) once again as one of the most inventive plotters in the businessuntil he tries one spin too many with an epilogue thats too twisty, too sentimental, and way too long. Even so, Myron runs rings around most of the tough-guy competition in the amateur division, like a class clown whos much more than just a funny face. -- Copyright 2000 Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. Harlan Coben and the Myron Bolitar Novels:The world needs to discover Harlan Coben.He's smart, he's funny, and he has something to say.--Michael ConnellyIn a genre crowded with accidental detectives who seem invented only to lure cat-loving vegetarians and other special-interest readers, Myron Bolitar stands out.--USA TodayDon't let Coben's wry observations fool you.They gift wrap keen insights into our society....--The Washington Post Book WorldPoignant and insightful...Myron is gallant, likable and delightfully original.--Los Angeles TimesCoben has melded sly humor, sophisticated plotting, and solid storytelling with bizarre yet believable characters.--Chicago TribuneBottom line: Slam dunk suspense from smart aleck sleuth.--People Magazine Beach Pick of the Week 6 1.5-hour cassettes --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Edgar Award-winner Harlan Coben is at his electrifying best in his latest novel--a dazzling tale of seething mystery and dark family secrets. In Darkest Fear, Myron Bolitar faces the most emotionally shattering case of his career. And it all begins when Myron's ex-girlfriend tells him he is a father--of a dying thirteen-year-old boy....Myron's sports agency is struggling. Now more than ever Myron needs to keep his eye on the ball, sign up some big-name clients, and turn away from the amateur detective work that is taking precious time away from the agency. But life is not going according to plan. Myron's father, recently recovered from a heart attack, is facing his own mortality--and forcing Myron to face it too. Then comes another surprise. Emily Downing, Myron's college sweetheart, reappears in his life with devastating news: Her thirteen-year-old son Jeremy is gravely ill and can be saved only by a bone-marrow transplant--from a donor who has vanished without a trace. And before Myron can absorb this revelation, Emily hits him with an even bigger shocker: Jeremy is Myron's son, conceived the night before Emily's wedding to another man.Staggered by the news, Myron plunges into a search for the missing donor. But for Myron, finding the only person in the world who can save a boy's life means cracking open a mystery as dark as it is heartbreaking--a mystery that involves a broken family, a brutal kidnapping spree, and a cat-and-mouse game between an ambitious reporter and the FBI. Somewhere in the sordid mess is the man who once signed his name to a bone-marrow donor's registry, then disappeared. And as doubts emerge about Jeremy's true paternity, a child vanishes, igniting a chain reaction of truth and revelation that will change everyone's life forever.At once a riveting mystery and a spellbinding journey into the secrets that haunt families, lovers, and friends, Darkest Fear proves once again that Harlan Coben is a master storyteller like no other--and one of the most original talents in suspense fiction today. Harlan Coben and the Myron Bolitar Novels:"The world needs to discover Harlan Coben. He's smart, he's funny, and he has something to say."--Michael Connelly"In a genre crowded with accidental detectives who seem invented only to lure cat-loving vegetarians and other special-interest readers, Myron Bolitar stands out."--USA Today"Don't let Coben's wry observations fool you. They gift wrap keen insights into our society...."--The Washington Post Book World"Poignant and insightful...Myron is gallant, likable and delightfully original."--Los Angeles Times"Coben has melded sly humor, sophisticated plotting, and solid storytelling with bizarre yet believable characters."--Chicago Tribune"Bottom line: Slam dunk suspense from smart aleck sleuth."--People Magazine Beach Pick of the Week Harlan Coben is the author of six previous novels:The Final Detail, One False Move, Back Spin, the Edgar Award and Shamus Award-winning Fade Away, Drop Shot, and Deal Breaker, which won an Anthony Award and received an Edgar Award nomination.He lives in New Jersey with his wife, daughter, and two sons.His e-mail address is bolitar@aol.com.Visit his website at www.harlancoben.com. An hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like a urinal cake.Well? Mom prompted.Myron battled his throat, won a costly victory, swallowed. Not bad.Mom shook her head, disappointed.What?I'm a lawyer, Mom said. You'd think I'd have raised a better liar.You did the best you could, Myron said.She shrugged and waved a hand at the, uh, pastry. It's my first time baking, bubbe. It's okay to tell me the truth.It's like biting into a urinal cake, Myron said.A what?In men's public bathrooms. In the urinals. They put them there for the smell or something.And you eat them?No--Is that why your father takes so long in there? He's having a little Tastykake? And here I thought his prostate was acting up.I'm joking, Mom.She smiled through blue eyes tinged with a red that Visine could never hope to get out, the red you can only get through slow, steady tears. Normally Mom was heavily into histrionics. Slow, steady tears were not her style. So am I, Mr. Smarty Pants. You think you're the only one in this family with a sense of humor?Myron said nothing. He looked down at the, uh, pastry, fearing or perhaps hoping it might crawl away. In the thirty-plus years his mother had lived in this house, she had never baked -- not from a recipe, not from scratch, not even from one of those Pillsbury morning croissant thingies that came in small mailing tubes. She could barely boil water without strict instructions and pretty much never cooked, though she could whip up a mean Celeste frozen pizza in the microwave, her agile fingers dancing across the numerical keypad in the vein of Nureyev at Lincoln Center. No, in the Bolitar household, the kitchen was more a gathering place -- a Family Room Lite, if you will -- than anything related to even the basest of the culinary arts. The round table held magazines and catalogs and congealing white boxes of Chinese takeout. The stovetop saw less action than a Merchant-Ivory production. The oven was a prop, strictly for show, like a politician's Bible.Something was definitely amiss.They were sitting in the living room with the dated pseudo-leather white modular couch and aqua-tinged rug whose shagginess reminded Myron of a toilet-seat cover. Grown-up Greg Brady. Myron kept stealing glances out the picture window at the For Sale sign in the front yard as though it were a spaceship that had just landed and something sinister was about to step out.Where's Dad?Mom gave a weary wave toward the door. He's in the basement.In my room?Your old room, yes. You moved out, remember?He did -- at the tender age of thirty-four no less. Childcare experts would salivate and tsk-tsk over that one -- the prodigal son choosing to remain in his split-level cocoon long after the deemed appropriate deadline for the butterfly to break free. But Myron might argue the opposite. He might bring up the fact that for generations and in most cultures, offspring lived in the familial home until a ripe old age, that adopting such a philosophy could indeed be a societal boom, helping people stay rooted to something tangible in this era of the disintegrating nuclear family. Or, if that rationale didn't float your boat, Myron could try another. He had a million.But the truth of the matter was far simpler: He liked hanging out in the burbs with Mom and Dad -- even if confessing such a sentiment was about as hip as an Air Supply eight track.So what's going on? he asked.Your father doesn't know you're here yet, she said. He thinks you're not coming for another hour.Myron nodded, puzzled. What's he doing in the basement?He bought a computer. Your father plays with it down there.Dad?My point exactly. The man can't change a lightbulb without a manual -- all of a sudden he's Bill Gates. Always on the nest.The Net, Myron corrected.The what?It's called the Net, Mom.I thought it was nest. The bird's nest or something.No, it's Net.Are you sure? I know there's a bird in there somewhere.The Web maybe, Myron tried. Like with a spider.She snapped her fingers. That's it. Anyway your father is on there all the time, weaving the Web or whatever. He chats with people, Myron. That's what he tells me. He chats with complete strangers. Like he used to do with the CB radio, remember?Myron remembered. Circa 1976. Jewish Dads in the suburbs checking for smokeys on the way to the delicatessen. Mighty convoy of Cadillac Sevilles. Ten-four, good buddy.And that's not all, she went on. He's typing his memoirs. A man who can't scribble down a grocery list without consulting Strunk and White suddenly thinks he's an ex-president.They were selling the house. Myron still could not believe it. His eyes wandered about the overly familiar surroundings, his gaze getting snagged on the photographs running up the stairwell. He saw his family mature via fashion -- the skirts and sideburns lengthening and shortening, the quasi-hippie fringes and suede and tie-dyes, the leisure suits and bell-bottoms, the frilly tuxedos that would be too tacky for a Vegas casino -- the years flying by frame by frame like one of those depressing life insurance commercials. He spotted the poses from his basketball days -- a sixth-grade suburban-league foul shot, an eighth-grade drive to the hoop, a high school slam dunk -- the row ending with Sports Illustrated cover shots, two from his days at Duke and one with his leg in a cast and a large-fonted IS HE FINISHED? emblazoned across his knee-cast image (the answer in the mind's eye being an equally large-fonted YES!).So what's wrong? he asked.I didn't say anything was wrong.Myron shook his head, disappointed. And you a lawyer.Setting a bad example?It's no wonder I never ran for higher office.She folded her hands on her lap. We need to chat.Myron didn't like the tone.But not here, she added. Let's take a walk around the block.Myron nodded and they rose. Before they reached the door, his cell phone rang. Myron snatched it up with a speed that would have made Wyatt Earp step back. He put the phone to his ear and cleared his throat.MB SportsReps, he said, silky-smooth, professional-like. This is Myron Bolitar speaking.Nice phone voice, Esperanza said. You sound like Billy Dee ordering two Colt 45s.Esperanza Diaz was his longtime assistant and now sports-agent partner at MB SportsReps (M for Myron, the B for Bolitar -- for those keeping score).I was hoping you were Lamar, he said.He hasn't called yet?Nope.He could almost see Esperanza frown. We're in deep doo-doo here, she said.We're not in deep doo-doo. We're just sucking a little wind, that's all.Sucking a little wind, Esperanza repeated. Like Pavarotti running the Boston Marathon.Good one, Myron said.Thanks.Lamar Richardson was a power-hitting Golden Glove shortstop who'd just become a free agent -- free agent being a phrase agents whisper in the same way a mufti might whisper Praise Allah. Lamar was shopping for new representation and had whittled his final list down to three agencies: two supersized conglomerates with enough office space to house a Price Club and the aforementioned pimple-on-the-buttocks but oh-so-personal MB SportsReps. Go, pimple-butt!Myron watched his mother standing by the door. He switched ears and said, Anything else?You'll never guess who called, Esperanza said.Elle and Claudia demanding another menage a trois?Oooo, close.She would never just tell him. With his friends, everything was a TV game show. How about a hint? he said.One of your ex-lovers.He felt a jolt. Jessica.Esperanza made a buzzing noise. Sorry, wrong bitch.Myron was puzzled. He'd only had two long-term relationships in his life: Jessica on and off for the past thirteen years (now very off). And before that, well, you'd have to go back to...Emily Downing?Esperanza made a ding-ding noise.A sudden image pierced his heart like a straight-blade. He saw Emily sitting on that threadbare couch in the frat basement, smiling that smile at him, her legs bent and tucked under her, wearing his high school varsity jacket that was several sizes too big, her gesturing hands slipping down and disappearing into the sleeves.His mouth went dry. What did she want?Don't know. But she said that she simply had to talk to you. She's very breathy, you know. Like everything she says is a double entendre.With Emily, everything was.She good in the sack? Esperanza asked.Being an overly attractive bisexual, Esperanza viewed everyone as a potential sex partner. Myron wondered what that must be like, to have and thus weigh so many options, and then he decided to leave that road untraveled. Wise man.What did Emily say exactly? Myron said.Nothing specific. She j... The comedic adventures of sports agent Myron Bolitar take a dark turn in the seventh book in his series when Bolitar and friends face a case of a dying child and a serial kidnapper. Myron's old college sweetheart has just told Myron that he is the father of her 13-year-old son, now dying of Fanconi anemia. Only a bone marrow transplant can save the boy, and the only donor has mysteriously disappeared. Jonathan Marosz manages an array of characters-- both good and evil--with richness of vocal tones and color, while giving the third-person narrator a journalistic, almost distant voice. The whole thing works magnificently as Myron takes on the issues of fathers, sons, masculinity, and violence. Marosz's reading shows the humor, the depth, and the vivid storytelling skills of the author. S.E.S. AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. | 5 |
0816043949 | A Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms
| Grade 8 Up-Employing an expanded use of the word "literary," this volume includes social, theoretical, and historical terms as they relate to literature, film, television, and others forms of popular culture. In addition to the many expected terms (iamb, onomatopoeia), entries on places (Abbey Theatre), philosophical principles (the Absolute), movements (futurism), and discussions on major themes such as love and jealousy are also covered. Most of the clear, concise entries offer excellent examples of written and cinematic works that further clarify the definitions and/or titles of resources that provide additional commentary on the topics. While there is no pronunciation key for the foreign words and expressions, this valuable resource is more accessible and broader in approach than other literary dictionaries.J. B. MacDonald, Milner Library, Illinois State University, Normal Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Chicago renaissance, Chinese-American literature, Ecocriticism, Graphic novel, and Interdisciplinary are among the 200 terms added to this edition of a useful guide first published in 1999. We said in our review of the first edition that the entries on thematic concepts are what set this book apart from other dictionaries of literary terms, and now new entries address themes such as Alcoholism, Baseball, Madness, Odysseus/Ulysses theme, and Vampirism, to name a few. Mary Ellen QuinnCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Library Binding edition. ...The writing is lively and interesting... This dictionary is very accessible, written to answer most questions more than adequately. -- Voice of Youth Advocates, April 2000This valuable resource is more accessible and broader in approach than other literary dictionaries. -- School Library Journal, May 1, 2000 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. | [
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Grade 8 Up-Employing an expanded use of the word "literary," this volume includes social, theoretical, and historical terms as they relate to literature, film, television, and others forms of popular culture. In addition to the many expected terms (iamb, onomatopoeia), entries on places (Abbey Theatre), philosophical principles (the Absolute), movements (futurism), and discussions on major themes such as love and jealousy are also covered. Most of the clear, concise entries offer excellent examples of written and cinematic works that further clarify the definitions and/or titles of resources that provide additional commentary on the topics. While there is no pronunciation key for the foreign words and expressions, this valuable resource is more accessible and broader in approach than other literary dictionaries.J. B. MacDonald, Milner Library, Illinois State University, Normal Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Chicago renaissance, Chinese-American literature, Ecocriticism, Graphic novel, and Interdisciplinary are among the 200 terms added to this edition of a useful guide first published in 1999. We said in our review of the first edition that the entries on thematic concepts are what set this book apart from other dictionaries of literary terms, and now new entries address themes such as Alcoholism, Baseball, Madness, Odysseus/Ulysses theme, and Vampirism, to name a few. Mary Ellen QuinnCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Library Binding edition. ...The writing is lively and interesting... This dictionary is very accessible, written to answer most questions more than adequately. -- Voice of Youth Advocates, April 2000This valuable resource is more accessible and broader in approach than other literary dictionaries. -- School Library Journal, May 1, 2000 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. | 6 |
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| Channel your child's love of dolphins and the ocean to help him or her learn how to tell time, with this educational, yet fun dolphin design watch by Activa Kids. Constructed with a dark blue, 14-millimeter rubber wristband featuring jumping dolphin designs, a 31-millimeter stainless steel case, and a matching oval stainless steel bezel, this slim accessory will help your child keep track of play dates, study sessions, and bed times all on his or her own. The watch's dial face is protected by a sturdy mineral crystal, and features large white Arabic numerals that pop out against the dial's blue face. Slim silver hour, minutes, and seconds indexes help keep track of time on this analog-quartz-powered watch. In addition, the watch is secured to the wrist with an adjustable buckle, and is water resistant to 99 feet, making it a versatile timepiece that can keep up with your young one--at play or at rest. | [
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| Includes: remote control, wireless keyboard, wireless optical mouse, IR Blaster, Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 with Update Rollup 2, Photoshop Elements, Works 8.0, Quicken 2005 New User Edition, Roxio DigitalMedia SE, & more. Sony VAIO(R) VA Series Desktop PC - Over the past few years there have been computers designed to integrate with your TV. Sony has gone a step further by combining the two, so now your PC is your TV! Or is it, your TV is your PC? Either way, you get a full-featured desktop computer built into a stunning 20" widescreen LCD TV. So you can watch, record and pause live TV on your computer using the easy-to-use interface that's provided by Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 operating system. You can even capture, edit, and burn hi-definition video with the included Double Layer DVD Writer and bundled software. Integrated 802.11b/g Wi-Fi Wireless Network Adapter 1GB of PC2-4200 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM 2 RAM Slots - (0 available) 320GB (160 x 2) 7200RPM SATA Hard Drives ATI Mobility Radeon X700 graphics with 256MB of memory (128MB are dynamically shared from the main system's RAM) AGP 8x Graphics Interface Giga Pocket MPEG2 Realtime Encoder board with TV Tuner Double Layer DVD Writer - (write speeds) 2.4x Double Layer DVD+R, 8x DVD-R, 8x DVD+R, 4x DVD-RW, 4x DVD+RW, 24x CD-R, & 10x CD-RW Double Layer DVD Writer - (read speeds) 8x DVD-ROM & 24x CD-ROM 5 Integrated Speakers for 2.1 channel playback 56k v.90 Fax Modem Multimedia Card Reader - Memory Stick, Memory Stick(R) PRO, Memory Stick(R) Duo, Smart Media, xD Picture Card, Secure Digital (SD), & Compact Flash PCMCIA Type I/II Card Slot with CardBus support Slots - 1 PCI (available) Ports - 10/100 Ethernet, 4 USB 2.0, 1 4-pin Firewire, 1 Composite S-Video & Audio In, 1 S/PDIF Out (supports 5.1 surround), 1 Mini Microphone Jack, 1 Stereo Headphone Unit Dimensions - 22.5 (w) x 17.5 (h) | [
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0471354872 | The Book of Management Wisdom: Classic Writings by Legendary Managers
| "This book is not only worth reading but for referring to time and time again for enduring truths which transcend the turbulence of the business landscape."--(Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, USC Co-author, Co-Leaders) Michael Eisner, Jack Welch, Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie-imagine that you could consult at will with the world's greatest business managers, past and present, whenever you were faced with a crucial management decision. The Book of Management Wisdom lets you do just that. This unique resource offers insight into how these and scores of other legendary business managers have triumphed over the conflicts, challenges, and dilemmas that come with the territory. Never before have the deepest insights of such a large and diverse group of brilliant managers been collected into a single informative and inspiring volume. The Book of Management Wisdom brings together the essays and speeches of more than fifty of the most successful business managers of all time and presents their ideas, tips, and management secrets in their own words. Drawing on their personal experiences, these world-class managers offer a range of practical advice, case studies, humorous anecdotes, and management philosophy. You'll hear from Sam Walton on creating a corporate culture, Lee Iacocca on his famous skip meetings, and Michael Dell on his "campaign of internal evangelism." Klaus Luft details what American CEOs can learn from German management; Harold Geneen describes the essential qualities of great managers; and Thomas Watson weighs in on what growth and change have taught us. These are just a few of the major figures who reveal fascinating details of their characters and personalities as they educate, enlighten, and entertain you with their often surprising views on the most compelling issues faced by managers in every corner of the business world. For easy reference, these essays and speeches are organized into eight categories, each of which highlights a certain set of management tools and techniques and how to use them. These include essential qualities of great managers; productivity, empowerment, and conflict management; hiring, firing, and day-to-day management; the power of technology; lessons from around the world; evolution of the organization; bashing bureaucracy; and reengineering and transformation. Each essay is preceded by a brief introduction that places it in historical perspective and offers interesting and insightful information about the author's life and career. Highlighted passages call your attention to each author's most pithy, profound, or quirky ideas. Offering timeless wisdom and practical advice from the most successful business managers ever, The Book of Management Wisdom is must reading for managers at every level, from the junior executive cubicle to the presidential suite. Michael Eisner, Jack Welch, Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie- imagine that you could consult at will with the world's greatest business managers, past and present, whenever you were faced with a crucial management decision. The Book of Management Wisdom lets you do just that. This unique resource offers insight into how these and scores of other legendary business managers have triumphed over the conflicts, challenges, and dilemmas that come with the territory. Never before have the deepest insights of such a large and diverse group of brilliant managers been collected into a single informative and inspiring volume.The Book of Management Wisdom brings together the essays and speeches of more than fifty of the most successful business managers of all time and presents their ideas, tips, and management secrets in their own words. Drawing on their personal experiences, these world-class managers offer a range of practical advice, case studies, humorous anecdotes, and management philosophy. You'll hear from Sam Walton on creating a corporate culture, Lee Iacocca on his famous skip meetings, and Michael Dell on his "campaign of internal evangelism." Klaus Luft details what American CEOs can learn from German management; Harold Geneen describes the essential qualities of great managers; and Thomas Watson weighs in on what growth and change have taught us. These are just a few of the major figures who reveal fascinating details of their characters and personalities as they educate, enlighten, and entertain you with their often surprising views on the most compelling issues faced by managers in every corner of the business world.For easy reference, these essays and speeches are organized into eight categories, each of which highlights a certain set of management tools and techniques and how to use them. These include essential qualities of great managers; productivity, empowerment, and conflict management; hiring, firing, and day-to-day management; the power of technology; lessons from around the world; evolution of the organization; bashing bureaucracy; and reengineering and transformation. Each essay is preceded by a brief introduction that places it in historical perspective and offers interesting and insightful information about the author's life and career. Highlighted passages call your attention to each author's most pithy, profound, or quirky ideas.Offering timeless wisdom and practical advice from the most successful business managers ever, The Book of Management Wisdom is must reading for managers at every level, from the junior executive cubicle to the presidential suite.Praise for The Book of Management Wisdom"This book is worth referring to time and again for enduring truths that transcend the turbulence of the business landscape." -Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, University of Southern California,and coauthor, Co-Leaders: The Power of Great PartnershipsPearls from The Book of Management Wisdom"Dealing with conflicts lies at the heart of managing any business. As a result, confrontation facing issues about which there is disagreement can be avoided only at the manager's peril."-Andrew S. Grove"Never hire your friends. I have made this mistake three times and had to fire all three. They are no longer my friends."-David Ogilvy"It's absolutely essential to let your people express themselves. And that means letting them make mistakes. You've got to allow them to walk into your office and say, 'Boss, I blew it.' That's called growing."-Lee Iacocca"For us, the issue wasn't whether people would waste time on the Internet, but whether they would use the Internet enough. Not to become completely familiar with a transformative business tool like the Internet is just foolish-especially when it's an integral part of your company's strategy and competitive advantage."- Michael Dell"A society which values MBAs, lawyers, and financial wizards over engineers and product planners is moving in the wrong direction."-Akio Morita PETER KRASS, a freelance writer and editor who lives in New Hampshire, is the editor of all five volumes in Wiley's Wisdom Series. Other titles in the series include The Book of Business Wisdom: Classic Writings by the Legends of Commerce and Industry; The Book of Leadership Wisdom: Classic Writings by Legendary Business Leaders; The Book of Investing Wisdom: Classic Writings by Great Stock-Pickers and Legends of Wall Street; and The Book of Entrepreneurs' Wisdom: Classic Writings by Legendary Entrepreneurs. He has contributed extensively to Investor's Business Daily. | [
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"This book is not only worth reading but for referring to time and time again for enduring truths which transcend the turbulence of the business landscape."--(Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, USC Co-author, Co-Leaders) Michael Eisner, Jack Welch, Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie-imagine that you could consult at will with the world's greatest business managers, past and present, whenever you were faced with a crucial management decision. The Book of Management Wisdom lets you do just that. This unique resource offers insight into how these and scores of other legendary business managers have triumphed over the conflicts, challenges, and dilemmas that come with the territory. Never before have the deepest insights of such a large and diverse group of brilliant managers been collected into a single informative and inspiring volume. The Book of Management Wisdom brings together the essays and speeches of more than fifty of the most successful business managers of all time and presents their ideas, tips, and management secrets in their own words. Drawing on their personal experiences, these world-class managers offer a range of practical advice, case studies, humorous anecdotes, and management philosophy. You'll hear from Sam Walton on creating a corporate culture, Lee Iacocca on his famous skip meetings, and Michael Dell on his "campaign of internal evangelism." Klaus Luft details what American CEOs can learn from German management; Harold Geneen describes the essential qualities of great managers; and Thomas Watson weighs in on what growth and change have taught us. These are just a few of the major figures who reveal fascinating details of their characters and personalities as they educate, enlighten, and entertain you with their often surprising views on the most compelling issues faced by managers in every corner of the business world. For easy reference, these essays and speeches are organized into eight categories, each of which highlights a certain set of management tools and techniques and how to use them. These include essential qualities of great managers; productivity, empowerment, and conflict management; hiring, firing, and day-to-day management; the power of technology; lessons from around the world; evolution of the organization; bashing bureaucracy; and reengineering and transformation. Each essay is preceded by a brief introduction that places it in historical perspective and offers interesting and insightful information about the author's life and career. Highlighted passages call your attention to each author's most pithy, profound, or quirky ideas. Offering timeless wisdom and practical advice from the most successful business managers ever, The Book of Management Wisdom is must reading for managers at every level, from the junior executive cubicle to the presidential suite. Michael Eisner, Jack Welch, Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie- imagine that you could consult at will with the world's greatest business managers, past and present, whenever you were faced with a crucial management decision. The Book of Management Wisdom lets you do just that. This unique resource offers insight into how these and scores of other legendary business managers have triumphed over the conflicts, challenges, and dilemmas that come with the territory. Never before have the deepest insights of such a large and diverse group of brilliant managers been collected into a single informative and inspiring volume.The Book of Management Wisdom brings together the essays and speeches of more than fifty of the most successful business managers of all time and presents their ideas, tips, and management secrets in their own words. Drawing on their personal experiences, these world-class managers offer a range of practical advice, case studies, humorous anecdotes, and management philosophy. You'll hear from Sam Walton on creating a corporate culture, Lee Iacocca on his famous skip meetings, and Michael Dell on his "campaign of internal evangelism." Klaus Luft details what American CEOs can learn from German management; Harold Geneen describes the essential qualities of great managers; and Thomas Watson weighs in on what growth and change have taught us. These are just a few of the major figures who reveal fascinating details of their characters and personalities as they educate, enlighten, and entertain you with their often surprising views on the most compelling issues faced by managers in every corner of the business world.For easy reference, these essays and speeches are organized into eight categories, each of which highlights a certain set of management tools and techniques and how to use them. These include essential qualities of great managers; productivity, empowerment, and conflict management; hiring, firing, and day-to-day management; the power of technology; lessons from around the world; evolution of the organization; bashing bureaucracy; and reengineering and transformation. Each essay is preceded by a brief introduction that places it in historical perspective and offers interesting and insightful information about the author's life and career. Highlighted passages call your attention to each author's most pithy, profound, or quirky ideas.Offering timeless wisdom and practical advice from the most successful business managers ever, The Book of Management Wisdom is must reading for managers at every level, from the junior executive cubicle to the presidential suite.Praise for The Book of Management Wisdom"This book is worth referring to time and again for enduring truths that transcend the turbulence of the business landscape." -Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, University of Southern California,and coauthor, Co-Leaders: The Power of Great PartnershipsPearls from The Book of Management Wisdom"Dealing with conflicts lies at the heart of managing any business. As a result, confrontation facing issues about which there is disagreement can be avoided only at the manager's peril."-Andrew S. Grove"Never hire your friends. I have made this mistake three times and had to fire all three. They are no longer my friends."-David Ogilvy"It's absolutely essential to let your people express themselves. And that means letting them make mistakes. You've got to allow them to walk into your office and say, 'Boss, I blew it.' That's called growing."-Lee Iacocca"For us, the issue wasn't whether people would waste time on the Internet, but whether they would use the Internet enough. Not to become completely familiar with a transformative business tool like the Internet is just foolish-especially when it's an integral part of your company's strategy and competitive advantage."- Michael Dell"A society which values MBAs, lawyers, and financial wizards over engineers and product planners is moving in the wrong direction."-Akio Morita PETER KRASS, a freelance writer and editor who lives in New Hampshire, is the editor of all five volumes in Wiley's Wisdom Series. Other titles in the series include The Book of Business Wisdom: Classic Writings by the Legends of Commerce and Industry; The Book of Leadership Wisdom: Classic Writings by Legendary Business Leaders; The Book of Investing Wisdom: Classic Writings by Great Stock-Pickers and Legends of Wall Street; and The Book of Entrepreneurs' Wisdom: Classic Writings by Legendary Entrepreneurs. He has contributed extensively to Investor's Business Daily. | 12 |
B0002UW95W | Shrek - The Story So Far (Shrek 1 & 2 Full Screen / Shrek 3D - Party in the Swamp) (2001)
| SHREK: THE STORY SO FAR (4-Disc DVD Collection) is perfect for Shrek fans and gift givers! This super Shrek set gives consumers all of the Shrek movies in one place plus even more of what they love about Shrek with an extra bonus features DVD! It includes the following: "Shrek" (single disc full-frame), "Shrek 3-D" including a collectible lenticular and four sets of 3-D glasses, "Shrek 2" (full frame) and a special bonus disc featuring entertaining exclusives not available in the Shrek 2 DVD/VHS (features subject to change)! There's nearly an hour of entertainment on this disc alone including: Puss In Boots Music Video, Learn How to Burp with Shrek and Fiona, A Making-Of Featurette, "Shrek 2" Around the World, Learn To Draw Shrek, Donkey and Puss In Boots. | [
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SHREK: THE STORY SO FAR (4-Disc DVD Collection) is perfect for Shrek fans and gift givers! This super Shrek set gives consumers all of the Shrek movies in one place plus even more of what they love about Shrek with an extra bonus features DVD! It includes the following: "Shrek" (single disc full-frame), "Shrek 3-D" including a collectible lenticular and four sets of 3-D glasses, "Shrek 2" (full frame) and a special bonus disc featuring entertaining exclusives not available in the Shrek 2 DVD/VHS (features subject to change)! There's nearly an hour of entertainment on this disc alone including: Puss In Boots Music Video, Learn How to Burp with Shrek and Fiona, A Making-Of Featurette, "Shrek 2" Around the World, Learn To Draw Shrek, Donkey and Puss In Boots. | 13 |
B000BBF5GW | Park Smart Heavy Duty Clean Park Garage Mat 7.5 x 18
| The Heavy Duty Clean Park Garage Mat has all the same great features as the standard mat. It catches everything that falls from your vehicle to keep the floor clean and it washes off easily. Remove one of the four snap-on edges and wash all the dirt and fluid out of your garage. Use a squeegee to remove excess liquid. The snap-on edges hold the mat securely in place and they also keep liquid from seeping out onto the garage floor. The result is a dry, clean floor that is safer and more attractive. | [
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The Heavy Duty Clean Park Garage Mat has all the same great features as the standard mat. It catches everything that falls from your vehicle to keep the floor clean and it washes off easily. Remove one of the four snap-on edges and wash all the dirt and fluid out of your garage. Use a squeegee to remove excess liquid. The snap-on edges hold the mat securely in place and they also keep liquid from seeping out onto the garage floor. The result is a dry, clean floor that is safer and more attractive. | 14 |
091658321X | Too Much Flesh and Jabez
| "Dowell writes with a superb power of constant implicationalways careful, always energetic, always suggestive." -- Thom Gunn, Times Literary Supplement"Dowell's achievement is to keep such a plot on the right side of pornographic farce and construct an intelligent and highly-charged erotic tale that is near impossible to put down." -- Gay Times 4-95"The South, having produced writers like Faulkner and Flannery O'Conner, has always been the most fertile source of American romance. Coleman Dowell is very comfortably a part of this tradition." -- Washington Post Book World"This novel is a meticulously and subtly composed tour de force on the imagination." -- Gilbert Sorrentino, New York Times Book Review 1-1-78"This story has a beautiful simplicity, like a film in sepia that passes like a dream. . . . What's really proposed in Dowell's gender-shifting, acrostic narrative devices is an omnisexual, self-consuming modern consciousness." -- Gary Indiana, Voice Literary Supplement 6-93 | [
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"Dowell writes with a superb power of constant implicationalways careful, always energetic, always suggestive." -- Thom Gunn, Times Literary Supplement"Dowell's achievement is to keep such a plot on the right side of pornographic farce and construct an intelligent and highly-charged erotic tale that is near impossible to put down." -- Gay Times 4-95"The South, having produced writers like Faulkner and Flannery O'Conner, has always been the most fertile source of American romance. Coleman Dowell is very comfortably a part of this tradition." -- Washington Post Book World"This novel is a meticulously and subtly composed tour de force on the imagination." -- Gilbert Sorrentino, New York Times Book Review 1-1-78"This story has a beautiful simplicity, like a film in sepia that passes like a dream. . . . What's really proposed in Dowell's gender-shifting, acrostic narrative devices is an omnisexual, self-consuming modern consciousness." -- Gary Indiana, Voice Literary Supplement 6-93 | 15 |
B000FMWGZ0 | Spur Gear, 20 Degree Pressure Angle, Polyoxymethylene, Inch, 20 Pitch, 2.000" Pitch Diameter, 0.312" Bore, 2.000" OD, 40 Teeth
| This polyoxymethylene spur gear with 20-degree pressure angle (PA) and a diametral pitch (DP) of 20 transmits torque between parallel shafts to provide rotational power to another part of a motorized system. It has a 20-degree pressure angle for lower contact ratio between gears, resulting in higher load capacity than smaller pressure angles, and a 20-diametral pitch for applications requiring a balance between transferring torque and controlling changes in speed and direction of rotation with precision. This spur gear, which can mesh only with spur gears that have the same pressure angle and diametral pitch, is made of polyoxymethylene for quiet operation, low friction and moisture absorption, and high resistance to heat and abrasion. This SmallParts spur gear is suitable for use in a variety of commercial and industrial applications, such as construction equipment, aeronautics, conveyors, and manufacturing equipment, among others.Spur gears, the most common gear type, have a circular or cylindrical shape with teeth bordering the outer perimeter and are used for transmitting rotational torque and motion between parallel rotating shafts. A spur gear's pressure angle (PA), diametral pitch (also called DP or pitch), and its material are important factors to consider when purchasing. Gears come in several types for use in different power transmission configurations and for different applications, including bevel and miter gears (for rotating shafts perpendicular to each other), change gears (to increase or decrease torque and speed), helical gears (for high rates of rotational speed), internal gears (where one gear is nested inside the other), rack and pinion gears (for turning rotational motion into linear motion), and worm gears (for perpendicular shafts in tight spaces and quiet operation). Gears are suitable for use in the agriculture, automotive, construction, mining, and packaging industries, and can be found in a variety of machines, including bicycles, automobiles, and elevators, among others. | [
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This polyoxymethylene spur gear with 20-degree pressure angle (PA) and a diametral pitch (DP) of 20 transmits torque between parallel shafts to provide rotational power to another part of a motorized system. It has a 20-degree pressure angle for lower contact ratio between gears, resulting in higher load capacity than smaller pressure angles, and a 20-diametral pitch for applications requiring a balance between transferring torque and controlling changes in speed and direction of rotation with precision. This spur gear, which can mesh only with spur gears that have the same pressure angle and diametral pitch, is made of polyoxymethylene for quiet operation, low friction and moisture absorption, and high resistance to heat and abrasion. This SmallParts spur gear is suitable for use in a variety of commercial and industrial applications, such as construction equipment, aeronautics, conveyors, and manufacturing equipment, among others.Spur gears, the most common gear type, have a circular or cylindrical shape with teeth bordering the outer perimeter and are used for transmitting rotational torque and motion between parallel rotating shafts. A spur gear's pressure angle (PA), diametral pitch (also called DP or pitch), and its material are important factors to consider when purchasing. Gears come in several types for use in different power transmission configurations and for different applications, including bevel and miter gears (for rotating shafts perpendicular to each other), change gears (to increase or decrease torque and speed), helical gears (for high rates of rotational speed), internal gears (where one gear is nested inside the other), rack and pinion gears (for turning rotational motion into linear motion), and worm gears (for perpendicular shafts in tight spaces and quiet operation). Gears are suitable for use in the agriculture, automotive, construction, mining, and packaging industries, and can be found in a variety of machines, including bicycles, automobiles, and elevators, among others. | 16 |
B000EOOWQ0 | Access 40575 Utilitrack Bed Extender Kit
| Agri-Cover Lorado Performance Tonneau Cover is designed to protect the truck bed from water, snow and dust. The simple twist-dial release system makes it a breeze to roll up the cover and the dual side latching automatically locks and unlocks when the cover is opened or closed. The cover features handy tension adjuster that fine-tunes the cover tension conveniently with the turn of a dial. Guarantees easy installation and is backed up with a limited lifetime warranty. | [
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Agri-Cover Lorado Performance Tonneau Cover is designed to protect the truck bed from water, snow and dust. The simple twist-dial release system makes it a breeze to roll up the cover and the dual side latching automatically locks and unlocks when the cover is opened or closed. The cover features handy tension adjuster that fine-tunes the cover tension conveniently with the turn of a dial. Guarantees easy installation and is backed up with a limited lifetime warranty. | 17 |
B000NQA7MW | Planet Love
| 1 Planet Love (Radio Edit) (3:32) 2 Planet Love (Escape Mix) (5:02) 3 Planet Love (Untidy Dub) (7:35) Remix - Untidy Dubs 4 Planet Love (Dextrous Remix) (6:46) Remix - Dextrous 5 Planet Love (Maxi Version) (7:04) | [
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0521820456 | Heidegger's Analytic: Interpretation, Discourse and Authenticity in Being and Time (Modern European Philosophy)
| "...an oustanding scholarly contribution to the study of the early Heidegger's views on interpretation. The book is guaranteed to appeal to a wide range of readers..." Philosophical Inquiry, Dana Belu, Brooklyn College"This is, in many respects, a refreshing book. It is clear and straightforward and closely-reasoned. While it does at times, especially in later chapters, become bogged down in Heideggerian jargon, it is a throwback to the days before deconstructionistic obliqueness became the rage. Carman is obviously a competent scholar in Heidegger, sympahetic but not uncritical, and he has something to say and says it, with clarity and even with elegance." Journal of Phenomenological Psychology"Carman's project set out to interpret Heidegger by analogy with Allison's Kant interpretation. The result is an excellent book that, in its clarity and breadth of scope, is set to become as central to Heideggerian scholarship as Allison's work is for Kant scholars. It develops a coherent and convincing interpretation of Heidegger's enterprise in Being and Time, one that future interpretations cannot ignore." Philosophy in Review Unlike those who view Heidegger as an idealist, Taylor Carman asserts that Heidegger is best understood as a realist and offers a new interpretation of his major work, Being and Time. Among the book's distinctive features are an interpretation explicitly oriented within a Kantian framework (often taken for granted in readings of Heidegger) and an analysis of Dasein in relation to recent theories of intentionality, notably those of Dennett and Searle. | [
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"...an oustanding scholarly contribution to the study of the early Heidegger's views on interpretation. The book is guaranteed to appeal to a wide range of readers..." Philosophical Inquiry, Dana Belu, Brooklyn College"This is, in many respects, a refreshing book. It is clear and straightforward and closely-reasoned. While it does at times, especially in later chapters, become bogged down in Heideggerian jargon, it is a throwback to the days before deconstructionistic obliqueness became the rage. Carman is obviously a competent scholar in Heidegger, sympahetic but not uncritical, and he has something to say and says it, with clarity and even with elegance." Journal of Phenomenological Psychology"Carman's project set out to interpret Heidegger by analogy with Allison's Kant interpretation. The result is an excellent book that, in its clarity and breadth of scope, is set to become as central to Heideggerian scholarship as Allison's work is for Kant scholars. It develops a coherent and convincing interpretation of Heidegger's enterprise in Being and Time, one that future interpretations cannot ignore." Philosophy in Review Unlike those who view Heidegger as an idealist, Taylor Carman asserts that Heidegger is best understood as a realist and offers a new interpretation of his major work, Being and Time. Among the book's distinctive features are an interpretation explicitly oriented within a Kantian framework (often taken for granted in readings of Heidegger) and an analysis of Dasein in relation to recent theories of intentionality, notably those of Dennett and Searle. | 19 |
B00004W1WK | Still Life
| Compilation of their Finest Moments from 1993/94 from Band that were Previously the Field Mice & Went on to Become Trembling Blue Stars. Includes Four of their Sarah Recordings. | [
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B000025T23 | Inferno
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0802464548 | The Reveal (Becoming Beka Series, Book 4)
| SARAH ANNE SUMPOLEC is a graduate of the University of Mary Washington and holds both a Bachelor's degree in psychology and elementary teaching certification. Her background in psychology allowed her to work both in an acute care inpatient setting and a long-term residential treatment center, both of which helped to provide her much insight and compassion towards those struggling to cope with a life that is not always kind or fair. She continually researches and speaks on the hot topics facing teens today. Sarah is the author of the Becoming Beka series, has written for a number of magazines such as Brio and Teens 4 Jesus, and has appeared on Janet Parshall's America, The Tyra Banks Show, and The 700 Club. Sarah lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia, with her husband, Jeff, and their three daughters. | [
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SARAH ANNE SUMPOLEC is a graduate of the University of Mary Washington and holds both a Bachelor's degree in psychology and elementary teaching certification. Her background in psychology allowed her to work both in an acute care inpatient setting and a long-term residential treatment center, both of which helped to provide her much insight and compassion towards those struggling to cope with a life that is not always kind or fair. She continually researches and speaks on the hot topics facing teens today. Sarah is the author of the Becoming Beka series, has written for a number of magazines such as Brio and Teens 4 Jesus, and has appeared on Janet Parshall's America, The Tyra Banks Show, and The 700 Club. Sarah lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia, with her husband, Jeff, and their three daughters. | 22 |
B0002E1GDO | Vic Firth Rute 303
| Designed for playing with a light touch while retaining the classic Rute sound. Great for medium and small group playing. With seven dowels (.156") L=16 3/8", Handle thickness = .630" Vic Firth offers a complete line of Rute, designed to provide the player with alternative sounds and feels across a variety of musical settings. Unless indicated, each Rute model features premium birch dowels secured in a birch drumstick handle. The handle provides a natural feel and can also be used for back beats, cross rim work and intricate patterns on the cymbal bell. A moveable band adjusts the effect from crisp to splashy. | [
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Designed for playing with a light touch while retaining the classic Rute sound. Great for medium and small group playing. With seven dowels (.156") L=16 3/8", Handle thickness = .630" Vic Firth offers a complete line of Rute, designed to provide the player with alternative sounds and feels across a variety of musical settings. Unless indicated, each Rute model features premium birch dowels secured in a birch drumstick handle. The handle provides a natural feel and can also be used for back beats, cross rim work and intricate patterns on the cymbal bell. A moveable band adjusts the effect from crisp to splashy. | 23 |
0618251448 | Refuge in Hell: How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis
| Silver, a lawyer and former general counsel to the CIA, tells the astonishing story of Berlin's Jewish Hospital during WWII. For decades before the Nazis seized power in Germany, the hospital had served Berlin's Jews as their principal medical resource. At the war's end, it was still functioning, delivering what medical care it could and sheltering a large percentage of the city's few remaining Jews. Silver asks how a Jewish institution, located in the capital city of a regime dedicated above all to obliterating the Jews, could possibly have survived. To answer this question, Silver has gathered the available documentary evidence and interviewed the handful of hospital staffers still alive. According to these sources, the institution's survival hinged on an amalgam of factors, including sheer, blind luck and bureaucratic infighting among Nazi organizations. As Silver explains, the Nazis' bizarre system for classifying persons of partly Jewish ancestry played a role as well, since some hospital personnel with mixed ancestry were not treated with the same implacable hostility as full Jews were. Silver acknowledges where gaps in the evidence make certainty impossible, as in assessing Dr. Walter Lustig, the hospital's chief during the war years. Lustig may have been a betrayer and collaborator, as some staffers think, or he may have manipulated the system as best he could to save at least some Jews from destruction. The balanced analysis of Dr. Lustig's record typifies the author's careful use of evidence throughout this absorbing book. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. When Soviet troops liberated the Jewish Hospital in Berlin in April 1945, they found 800 Jewish doctors, nurses, and patients that had survived there during World War II. The hospital's director was Dr. Walter Lustig, a German-born Jew, who had been baptized and married an Aryan woman. His ties to the notorious Adolf Eichmann were the reason that the hospital remained open. Lustig compiled lists of Jews--both staff members and patients--for deportation to concentration camps. He was later executed by the Soviets, purportedly for collaborating with the Nazis. Much of the book centers on the complex character of Lustig and whether he should be lauded for keeping many of the Jews alive or condemned for sending many of them to their deaths. Silver was able to locate and interview a number of survivors. He also relied on the work of scholars who had researched the history of the hospital. The result is a graphic account of a little-known episode in the Holocaust. George CohenCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved "[A] fascinating footnote to Holocaust history that staggers the imagination . . . one that Silver captures with all due astonishment." Kirkus Reviews, Starred Silver, a lawyer and former general counsel to the CIA, tells the astonishing story of Berlin's Jewish Hospital during WWII. For decades before the Nazis seized power in Germany, the hospital had served Berlin's Jews as their principal medical resource. At the war's end, it was still functioning, delivering what medical care it could and sheltering a large percentage of the city's few remaining Jews. Silver asks how a Jewish institution, located in the capital city of a regime dedicated above all to obliterating the Jews, could possibly have survived. To answer this question, Silver has gathered the available documentary evidence and interviewed the handful of hospital staffers still alive. According to these sources, the institution's survival hinged on an amalgam of factors, including sheer, blind luck and bureaucratic infighting among Nazi organizations. As Silver explains, the Nazis' bizarre system for classifying persons of partly Jewish ancestry played a role as well, since some hospital personnel with mixed ancestry were not treated with the same implacable hostility as full Jews were. Silver acknowledges where gaps in the evidence make certainty impossible, as in assessing Dr. Walter Lustig, the hospital's chief during the war years. Lustig may have been a betrayer and collaborator, as some staffers think, or he may have manipulated the system as best he could to save at least some Jews from destruction. The balanced analysis of Dr. Lustig's record typifies the author's careful use of evidence throughout this absorbing book. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. (Publishers Weekly )When Soviet troops liberated the Jewish Hospital in Berlin in April 1945, they found 800 Jewish doctors, nurses, and patients that had survived there during World War II. The hospital's director was Dr. Walter Lustig, a German-born Jew, who had been baptized and married an Aryan woman. His ties to the notorious Adolf Eichmann were the reason that the hospital remained open. Lustig compiled lists of Jews--both staff members and patients--for deportation to concentration camps. He was later executed by the Soviets, purportedly for collaborating with the Nazis. Much of the book centers on the complex character of Lustig and whether he should be lauded for keeping many of the Jews alive or condemned for sending many of them to their deaths. Silver was able to locate and interview a number of survivors. He also relied on the work of scholars who had researched the history of the hospital. The result is a graphic account of a little-known episode in the Holocaust. George CohenCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved (Booklist )A great deal has been written, filmed and imagined about the Holocaust over the past six decades. And yet Silver's narrative loses none of its poignancy...One physician's actions are depicted in all their fascinating complexity: whether Nazi collaborator or protector of his people, it is not easy to decide...Meticulously documented, the facts seem almost incredible. No more incredible, however, than the author's gripping account of the persecution itself.F. Gonzalez-Crussi (The Washington Post ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Dan Silver has a law degree and a PhD in cultural anthropology from Harvard, and has been General Counsel of the National Security Agency and from 1979 - 1981 General Counsel of the CIA. He is an active member in Washington DC's largest conservative Jewish congregation and lives in Chevy Chase, MD. Preface The Story Behind the StoryIn August 1945, Ernie Mayerfeld, a nineteen-year-old GI stationed in Berlin, received a letter from his father in New York asking him to undertake a mission for a family friend. Until 1938 the elder Mayerfeld had been a prosperous leather distributor in Frankfurt. Even as the Nazi persecution mounted in Germany, it had seemed inconceivable to Herr Mayerfeld that the familys comfortable life would be disrupted permanently. After all, the familys roots in Germany and Austria went back hundreds of years. (The residence of one ancestor, the Baron Eskeles, whose wife was a patroness of Mozart, today serves as the home of Viennas Jewish Museum.) And after the Nazis took power in 1933, he still could not foresee the worst. Had he not received a medal for his service at the front in World War I, accompanied by a letter of thanks signed by Der Fhrer himself ? Not even the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom, in which Herr Mayerfeld narrowly escaped arrest, had convinced him to emigrate. Only in the ensuing months when his suppliers would no longer sell him the merchandise needed for his business was he finally persuaded to flee. And so, virtually at the last possible moment and aided by a large dose of good luck, the Mayerfelds escaped and eventually made their way to New York, where fourteen-year-old Ernst turned himself into Ernie, an American teenager. Five years later, after fighting in the Battle of the Bulge, he returned to the country of his birth as one of the occupying U.S. troops. His fathers request was one of many that Ernie had received asking him to look for surviving relatives of German Jewish migrs in the United States. Frequently, the searches were unavailing. But in this case, Herr Mayerfelds friend was certain that his sister, Johanna Frank, had survived the war as a nurse in the Berlin Jewish Hospital. He sent a package of foodstuffs to be delivered to her. And so one day Ernie made his way through the rubble and devastation of occupied Berlin to 2 Iranischestrasse in the Wedding district. There he found a spacious compound of seven buildings set in a large garden. Carved in stone over the main entrance on Iranischestrasse, in the pediment of the administration building, was the name Krankenhaus der Jdischen Gemeinde, or Hospital of the Jewish Community. Johanna Frank was indeed there, attending to her nursing duties. The buildings were all still standing, Ernie remembered, although some of them had taken hits in the bombing. Inside, though, it was unbelievable. Doctors in white coats and nurses in clean, starched uniforms bustled through spotless corridors and rooms, attending to their patients. It was as if the twelve years of Nazi horror had never happened. Astounded by what he found, Ernie asked Schwester Johanna and her coworkers how it was possible that this hospital, full of Jews, had made it through the Nazi period. All agreed that it was a miracle, but no one had a coherent explanation to offer. More than half a century passed, filled with marriage, family, and a successful career as a CIA officer and later as a lawyer in the CIAs Office of General Counsel. From time to time Ernie thought about his strange experience at the Berlin Jewish Hospital and wondered about the story that lay behind it, but he had no time to make inquiries. At a dinner party in the late 1970s or early 1980s, about the same time that Ernie and I became legal colleagues at the CIA and grew to be close friends, I met Klaus Zwilsky, a charming and ebullient man, then in his fifties, who spoke with a slight German accent. Over the years we continued to see each other. One night over dinner, the talk turned to how it must feel to live under the constant threat of bombing. I dont remember how the topic arose; probably we were talking about Beirut or one of the worlds other perennial hot spots. Klaus listened for a while and then volunteered a comment, describing his own emotions as a child in Berlin in 1944 and 1945, cowering fearfully in the cellar while Allied bombers attacked the city. But, Klaus, someone said. I dont understand. Youre Jewish; your parents were both 100 percent Jewish. How could you have been living in Berlin during the last years of the war? My father worked at the Jewish hospital, Klaus explained, and we all lived there. He said a few more words about his experience of the Allied air raids, and the conversation moved on to other things. In this way I too learned that a Jewish hospital in Berlin had remained open throughout the entire Nazi era and that Jewish doctors, nurses, administrators, and patients had survived there. The fact astonished me. I thought I knew a goood deal about the Nazi persecution of German Jews. I had read widely on the subject of the Holocaust. I was aware that a handful of Jews haddddd survived in Germany, some in hiding, some protected by marriage to non-Jews. But I also knew or thought I knew that the Nazis had ruthlessly extirpated every trace of Jewish life in Germany. They had destroyed the synagogues, desecrated the cemeteries, dissolved the Jewish organizations, prohibited Jewish worship, driven two-thirds of Germanys Jews into exile, and then deported all but a handful of those who remained the lucky ones to the ghetto established in Theresienstadt in what had once been Czechoslovakia, and the rest to the death camps of Eastern Europe. How, then, was it possible that a Jewish hospital operating openly under the name Krankenhaus der Jdischen Gemeinde had continued to exist in Berlin throughout the war? How was it that Klaus and his parents, full Jews with no apparent form of protection, could have survived the war living in that hospital? The question kept recurring through the next two decades of a life that, like Ernies, was too busy to permit further investigation. Klaus, who had been only a child during the war years, was reticent about his experiences and volunteered no further explanation. I could find nothing written on the subject in English-language sources. Years went by, years during which from time to time I would say to myself, Someday I need to find out about the Jewish hospital, and then move on to whatever preoccupation was more pressing. Finally, the day came when circumstances made it possible for me to begin serious research on the Berlin Jewish Hospital during the wartime years. My immediate thought was to ask Ernie Mayerfeld if he would be interested in joining me. Did you know that there was a Jewish hospital in Berlin that operated all the way through World War II? I asked. His response took me by surprise. Everyone else to whom I mentioned this fact reacted with astonishment. Ernie looked sheepish. Not only do I know that, he said haltingly. I was there. He proceeded to tell me the story of his 1945 visit. We agreed that we would set out together to find out how and why this hospital, alone among all of Germanys Jewish institutions, had survived when everything else associated with German Jewry was being destroyed. Our initial objective was to satisfy our own curiosity. As we found out more, however, we agreed that we should write something that would bring this astonishing story to the publics attention. Our determination to do so was strengthened when we discovered that the only Internet reference we could find was on a scurrilous neo-Nazi, Holocaust-denial Web site where the fact that the Berlin Jewish Hospital operated throughout the war was adduced as proof that the Nazi atrocities had never occurred. Our research quickly revealed that the essential facts relating to the Berlin Jewish Hospital were not unknown in the small circle of scholars who have devoted themselves to the study of the German Jewish experience during the Nazi era. Indeed, many facts pertaining to the hospitals survival from 1938 through 1945 have been recorded in two German-language publications in a small monograph devoted to the 193845 period and in portions of a larger history of the hospital. Both were the products of extensive archival research and of interviews with war survivors. The findings of the monograph were summarized in English in an article in a scholarly journal, the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book. Passing references to the hospital also could be found in other scholarly books on German Jewry during the Nazi era. Thus we found that the task of preserving the record for the scholarly community had largely been completed. Nor had the existence of the hospital in the war period completely escaped the attention even of authors who wrote for a more popular audience. Fleeting references to it gave evidence that they knew it was there. For example, in a fascinating book, The Last Jews in Berlin, Leonard Gross tells the stories of several Jews who survived the final years of the Nazi period in hiding in Berlin. A passing reference makes clear that he knew that the hospital was in operation throughout this period, but nothing more is said about the institution and the large number of Jews who were living there openly. None of the scholarly or passing accounts, we felt, satisfactorily addressed two important questions. Again and again we asked ourselves, How could this have happened? So, too, has almost everyone who has encountered the simple fact of the hospitals survival. Another question that the barest outline of the facts about the hospital urgently raises is: What was it like to live and work in such circumstances? And so we set out to do two things. First, we wanted to supplement the existing historical record as much as possible, knowing that t... | [
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Silver, a lawyer and former general counsel to the CIA, tells the astonishing story of Berlin's Jewish Hospital during WWII. For decades before the Nazis seized power in Germany, the hospital had served Berlin's Jews as their principal medical resource. At the war's end, it was still functioning, delivering what medical care it could and sheltering a large percentage of the city's few remaining Jews. Silver asks how a Jewish institution, located in the capital city of a regime dedicated above all to obliterating the Jews, could possibly have survived. To answer this question, Silver has gathered the available documentary evidence and interviewed the handful of hospital staffers still alive. According to these sources, the institution's survival hinged on an amalgam of factors, including sheer, blind luck and bureaucratic infighting among Nazi organizations. As Silver explains, the Nazis' bizarre system for classifying persons of partly Jewish ancestry played a role as well, since some hospital personnel with mixed ancestry were not treated with the same implacable hostility as full Jews were. Silver acknowledges where gaps in the evidence make certainty impossible, as in assessing Dr. Walter Lustig, the hospital's chief during the war years. Lustig may have been a betrayer and collaborator, as some staffers think, or he may have manipulated the system as best he could to save at least some Jews from destruction. The balanced analysis of Dr. Lustig's record typifies the author's careful use of evidence throughout this absorbing book. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. When Soviet troops liberated the Jewish Hospital in Berlin in April 1945, they found 800 Jewish doctors, nurses, and patients that had survived there during World War II. The hospital's director was Dr. Walter Lustig, a German-born Jew, who had been baptized and married an Aryan woman. His ties to the notorious Adolf Eichmann were the reason that the hospital remained open. Lustig compiled lists of Jews--both staff members and patients--for deportation to concentration camps. He was later executed by the Soviets, purportedly for collaborating with the Nazis. Much of the book centers on the complex character of Lustig and whether he should be lauded for keeping many of the Jews alive or condemned for sending many of them to their deaths. Silver was able to locate and interview a number of survivors. He also relied on the work of scholars who had researched the history of the hospital. The result is a graphic account of a little-known episode in the Holocaust. George CohenCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved "[A] fascinating footnote to Holocaust history that staggers the imagination . . . one that Silver captures with all due astonishment." Kirkus Reviews, Starred Silver, a lawyer and former general counsel to the CIA, tells the astonishing story of Berlin's Jewish Hospital during WWII. For decades before the Nazis seized power in Germany, the hospital had served Berlin's Jews as their principal medical resource. At the war's end, it was still functioning, delivering what medical care it could and sheltering a large percentage of the city's few remaining Jews. Silver asks how a Jewish institution, located in the capital city of a regime dedicated above all to obliterating the Jews, could possibly have survived. To answer this question, Silver has gathered the available documentary evidence and interviewed the handful of hospital staffers still alive. According to these sources, the institution's survival hinged on an amalgam of factors, including sheer, blind luck and bureaucratic infighting among Nazi organizations. As Silver explains, the Nazis' bizarre system for classifying persons of partly Jewish ancestry played a role as well, since some hospital personnel with mixed ancestry were not treated with the same implacable hostility as full Jews were. Silver acknowledges where gaps in the evidence make certainty impossible, as in assessing Dr. Walter Lustig, the hospital's chief during the war years. Lustig may have been a betrayer and collaborator, as some staffers think, or he may have manipulated the system as best he could to save at least some Jews from destruction. The balanced analysis of Dr. Lustig's record typifies the author's careful use of evidence throughout this absorbing book. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. (Publishers Weekly )When Soviet troops liberated the Jewish Hospital in Berlin in April 1945, they found 800 Jewish doctors, nurses, and patients that had survived there during World War II. The hospital's director was Dr. Walter Lustig, a German-born Jew, who had been baptized and married an Aryan woman. His ties to the notorious Adolf Eichmann were the reason that the hospital remained open. Lustig compiled lists of Jews--both staff members and patients--for deportation to concentration camps. He was later executed by the Soviets, purportedly for collaborating with the Nazis. Much of the book centers on the complex character of Lustig and whether he should be lauded for keeping many of the Jews alive or condemned for sending many of them to their deaths. Silver was able to locate and interview a number of survivors. He also relied on the work of scholars who had researched the history of the hospital. The result is a graphic account of a little-known episode in the Holocaust. George CohenCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved (Booklist )A great deal has been written, filmed and imagined about the Holocaust over the past six decades. And yet Silver's narrative loses none of its poignancy...One physician's actions are depicted in all their fascinating complexity: whether Nazi collaborator or protector of his people, it is not easy to decide...Meticulously documented, the facts seem almost incredible. No more incredible, however, than the author's gripping account of the persecution itself.F. Gonzalez-Crussi (The Washington Post ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Dan Silver has a law degree and a PhD in cultural anthropology from Harvard, and has been General Counsel of the National Security Agency and from 1979 - 1981 General Counsel of the CIA. He is an active member in Washington DC's largest conservative Jewish congregation and lives in Chevy Chase, MD. Preface The Story Behind the StoryIn August 1945, Ernie Mayerfeld, a nineteen-year-old GI stationed in Berlin, received a letter from his father in New York asking him to undertake a mission for a family friend. Until 1938 the elder Mayerfeld had been a prosperous leather distributor in Frankfurt. Even as the Nazi persecution mounted in Germany, it had seemed inconceivable to Herr Mayerfeld that the familys comfortable life would be disrupted permanently. After all, the familys roots in Germany and Austria went back hundreds of years. (The residence of one ancestor, the Baron Eskeles, whose wife was a patroness of Mozart, today serves as the home of Viennas Jewish Museum.) And after the Nazis took power in 1933, he still could not foresee the worst. Had he not received a medal for his service at the front in World War I, accompanied by a letter of thanks signed by Der Fhrer himself ? Not even the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom, in which Herr Mayerfeld narrowly escaped arrest, had convinced him to emigrate. Only in the ensuing months when his suppliers would no longer sell him the merchandise needed for his business was he finally persuaded to flee. And so, virtually at the last possible moment and aided by a large dose of good luck, the Mayerfelds escaped and eventually made their way to New York, where fourteen-year-old Ernst turned himself into Ernie, an American teenager. Five years later, after fighting in the Battle of the Bulge, he returned to the country of his birth as one of the occupying U.S. troops. His fathers request was one of many that Ernie had received asking him to look for surviving relatives of German Jewish migrs in the United States. Frequently, the searches were unavailing. But in this case, Herr Mayerfelds friend was certain that his sister, Johanna Frank, had survived the war as a nurse in the Berlin Jewish Hospital. He sent a package of foodstuffs to be delivered to her. And so one day Ernie made his way through the rubble and devastation of occupied Berlin to 2 Iranischestrasse in the Wedding district. There he found a spacious compound of seven buildings set in a large garden. Carved in stone over the main entrance on Iranischestrasse, in the pediment of the administration building, was the name Krankenhaus der Jdischen Gemeinde, or Hospital of the Jewish Community. Johanna Frank was indeed there, attending to her nursing duties. The buildings were all still standing, Ernie remembered, although some of them had taken hits in the bombing. Inside, though, it was unbelievable. Doctors in white coats and nurses in clean, starched uniforms bustled through spotless corridors and rooms, attending to their patients. It was as if the twelve years of Nazi horror had never happened. Astounded by what he found, Ernie asked Schwester Johanna and her coworkers how it was possible that this hospital, full of Jews, had made it through the Nazi period. All agreed that it was a miracle, but no one had a coherent explanation to offer. More than half a century passed, filled with marriage, family, and a successful career as a CIA officer and later as a lawyer in the CIAs Office of General Counsel. From time to time Ernie thought about his strange experience at the Berlin Jewish Hospital and wondered about the story that lay behind it, but he had no time to make inquiries. At a dinner party in the late 1970s or early 1980s, about the same time that Ernie and I became legal colleagues at the CIA and grew to be close friends, I met Klaus Zwilsky, a charming and ebullient man, then in his fifties, who spoke with a slight German accent. Over the years we continued to see each other. One night over dinner, the talk turned to how it must feel to live under the constant threat of bombing. I dont remember how the topic arose; probably we were talking about Beirut or one of the worlds other perennial hot spots. Klaus listened for a while and then volunteered a comment, describing his own emotions as a child in Berlin in 1944 and 1945, cowering fearfully in the cellar while Allied bombers attacked the city. But, Klaus, someone said. I dont understand. Youre Jewish; your parents were both 100 percent Jewish. How could you have been living in Berlin during the last years of the war? My father worked at the Jewish hospital, Klaus explained, and we all lived there. He said a few more words about his experience of the Allied air raids, and the conversation moved on to other things. In this way I too learned that a Jewish hospital in Berlin had remained open throughout the entire Nazi era and that Jewish doctors, nurses, administrators, and patients had survived there. The fact astonished me. I thought I knew a goood deal about the Nazi persecution of German Jews. I had read widely on the subject of the Holocaust. I was aware that a handful of Jews haddddd survived in Germany, some in hiding, some protected by marriage to non-Jews. But I also knew or thought I knew that the Nazis had ruthlessly extirpated every trace of Jewish life in Germany. They had destroyed the synagogues, desecrated the cemeteries, dissolved the Jewish organizations, prohibited Jewish worship, driven two-thirds of Germanys Jews into exile, and then deported all but a handful of those who remained the lucky ones to the ghetto established in Theresienstadt in what had once been Czechoslovakia, and the rest to the death camps of Eastern Europe. How, then, was it possible that a Jewish hospital operating openly under the name Krankenhaus der Jdischen Gemeinde had continued to exist in Berlin throughout the war? How was it that Klaus and his parents, full Jews with no apparent form of protection, could have survived the war living in that hospital? The question kept recurring through the next two decades of a life that, like Ernies, was too busy to permit further investigation. Klaus, who had been only a child during the war years, was reticent about his experiences and volunteered no further explanation. I could find nothing written on the subject in English-language sources. Years went by, years during which from time to time I would say to myself, Someday I need to find out about the Jewish hospital, and then move on to whatever preoccupation was more pressing. Finally, the day came when circumstances made it possible for me to begin serious research on the Berlin Jewish Hospital during the wartime years. My immediate thought was to ask Ernie Mayerfeld if he would be interested in joining me. Did you know that there was a Jewish hospital in Berlin that operated all the way through World War II? I asked. His response took me by surprise. Everyone else to whom I mentioned this fact reacted with astonishment. Ernie looked sheepish. Not only do I know that, he said haltingly. I was there. He proceeded to tell me the story of his 1945 visit. We agreed that we would set out together to find out how and why this hospital, alone among all of Germanys Jewish institutions, had survived when everything else associated with German Jewry was being destroyed. Our initial objective was to satisfy our own curiosity. As we found out more, however, we agreed that we should write something that would bring this astonishing story to the publics attention. Our determination to do so was strengthened when we discovered that the only Internet reference we could find was on a scurrilous neo-Nazi, Holocaust-denial Web site where the fact that the Berlin Jewish Hospital operated throughout the war was adduced as proof that the Nazi atrocities had never occurred. Our research quickly revealed that the essential facts relating to the Berlin Jewish Hospital were not unknown in the small circle of scholars who have devoted themselves to the study of the German Jewish experience during the Nazi era. Indeed, many facts pertaining to the hospitals survival from 1938 through 1945 have been recorded in two German-language publications in a small monograph devoted to the 193845 period and in portions of a larger history of the hospital. Both were the products of extensive archival research and of interviews with war survivors. The findings of the monograph were summarized in English in an article in a scholarly journal, the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book. Passing references to the hospital also could be found in other scholarly books on German Jewry during the Nazi era. Thus we found that the task of preserving the record for the scholarly community had largely been completed. Nor had the existence of the hospital in the war period completely escaped the attention even of authors who wrote for a more popular audience. Fleeting references to it gave evidence that they knew it was there. For example, in a fascinating book, The Last Jews in Berlin, Leonard Gross tells the stories of several Jews who survived the final years of the Nazi period in hiding in Berlin. A passing reference makes clear that he knew that the hospital was in operation throughout this period, but nothing more is said about the institution and the large number of Jews who were living there openly. None of the scholarly or passing accounts, we felt, satisfactorily addressed two important questions. Again and again we asked ourselves, How could this have happened? So, too, has almost everyone who has encountered the simple fact of the hospitals survival. Another question that the barest outline of the facts about the hospital urgently raises is: What was it like to live and work in such circumstances? And so we set out to do two things. First, we wanted to supplement the existing historical record as much as possible, knowing that t... | 24 |
0060582480 | A Year in the South: 1865: The True Story of Four Ordinary People Who Lived Through the Most Tumultuous Twelve Months in American History
| Stephen V. Ash is Professor of History at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of several books on the Civil War, including When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South. He lives with his wife in Knoxville, Tennessee. | [
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| A flashy, splashy summer-movie blockbuster that's fun and exciting without being mindless? That's the impossible mission accomplished by director Brian De Palma, star-coproducer Tom Cruise, and the crack team of Mission: Impossible. Based on the '60s TV show and an almost impenetrably complex (but nonetheless thrilling) original story by David Koepp (Jurassic Park) and Steven Zaillian (Schindler's List), with a screenplay by Koepp and Robert Towne (Chinatown, Shampoo), Mission: Impossible begins with veteran agent Jim Phelps (Jon Voight) and his expert crew embarking on a mission that goes horribly, horribly wrong. But nothing is what it seems. The nail-biting set piece--always a signature of director De Palma (Carrie, The Untouchables)--in which Cruise is lowered from the ceiling to retrieve information from a computer in a high-security vault--is an instant classic. But perhaps even more impressive, at least in retrospect, is a flashback sequence in which two characters attempt to reconstruct a series of events from multiple points of view. It's pretty daring and sophisticated stuff for a big-budget spy movie, but brains were always what put the Mission: Impossible team ahead of the competition, anyway, no? --Jim Emerson | [
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A flashy, splashy summer-movie blockbuster that's fun and exciting without being mindless? That's the impossible mission accomplished by director Brian De Palma, star-coproducer Tom Cruise, and the crack team of Mission: Impossible. Based on the '60s TV show and an almost impenetrably complex (but nonetheless thrilling) original story by David Koepp (Jurassic Park) and Steven Zaillian (Schindler's List), with a screenplay by Koepp and Robert Towne (Chinatown, Shampoo), Mission: Impossible begins with veteran agent Jim Phelps (Jon Voight) and his expert crew embarking on a mission that goes horribly, horribly wrong. But nothing is what it seems. The nail-biting set piece--always a signature of director De Palma (Carrie, The Untouchables)--in which Cruise is lowered from the ceiling to retrieve information from a computer in a high-security vault--is an instant classic. But perhaps even more impressive, at least in retrospect, is a flashback sequence in which two characters attempt to reconstruct a series of events from multiple points of view. It's pretty daring and sophisticated stuff for a big-budget spy movie, but brains were always what put the Mission: Impossible team ahead of the competition, anyway, no? --Jim Emerson | 26 |
B000NWSA02 | Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies (For Dummies (Cooking))
| If you or a family member has diabetes, food preparation may seem like a chore or a deprivation. What can you cook that tastes good and fits the diabetes guidelines? The authors of Diabetes Cookbook for Dummies, diabetes expert Alan Rubin (who also wrote Diabetes for Dummies) and registered dietician Fran Stach, have come up with dishes that will please not just the person with diabetes but the whole family. The diabetes diet is healthy for all of us, and if we can make it taste good, we all benefit. That's where this book shines. The 112 recipes are as creative and tasty as they are healthy, yet most take a half hour or less of preparation (plus cooking time). Recipes include Soy Waffles, Crispy Corn French Toast, Portobello Pat, Carrot Soup with Leek and Blood Orange, Mango Tortilla Salad, Oriental Beef and Noodle Salad, and Spaghetti Squash with Fresh Basil, plus a variety of fish, meat, and poultry entres. Some of the recipes were created by chef Denise Sharf; others were contributed by gourmet restaurants. All recipes include nutritional information: calories, protein, carbohydrates, fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, fiber, sodium, and exchanges. Diabetes Cookbook for Dummies is more than a compilation of recipes. The book also gives guidelines for "what, when, and how much" to eat, including tips for visualizing portions (an ounce of meat is the size of a matchbox; an ounce of cheese is the size of a domino; a medium potato is the size of a computer mouse). You'll get shopping and cooking tips and illustrated food-preparation steps to help novice cooks. Like the whole For Dummies line, the style is simple, friendly, clever, and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, such as, "Don't go to a paint store and expect to get thinner there." -- Joan Price Many of us, at the best of times, struggle for inspiration when it comes to cooking and thats without a medical condition that may affect our eating habits and require careful management. The right diet is the foundation of a healthy lifestyle and all the more important for the successful management of diabetes.Fully updated for a UK audience Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies will include the latest dietary recommendations and medical information on diabetes and its management. Packed with over 100 delicious and easy to prepare recipes - for everyday eating and entertaining - alongside a brand new section on packing healthy lunches and picnics, this book will help make mealtimes interesting and healthy. The book also offers guidance on the glycaemic index, nutritional information, diabetic exchanges for each recipe and lifestyle advice to help readers take control of their condition and live life to the full.Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies will feature:Part I: Thriving with DiabetesLiving To Eat With DiabetesEating To Live With DiabetesPlanning Meals for Weight Loss GoalsEating What You Like (Within Reason)Stocking Up at the SupermarketPart II: Healthy Recipes That Taste GreatEnjoying the Benefits of BreakfastStarting Well: Hors dOeuvres and First CoursesSipping Simply Divine SoupsTaking a Leaf From the Salad BarBeing Full of Beans (and Grains and Pasta)Adding Veg to Your MealsBoning Up on Fish CookeryFlocking to PoultryCreating Balanced Meals with MeatsNibbling on SnacksDrooling Over Mouth-Watering DessertsPart III: Eating Away from HomeEating Out as a Nourishing ExperiencePacking a Picnic LunchPart IV: The Part of TensTen (or So) Simple Steps to Change Your Eating HabitsTen Easy Substitutions in Your Eating PlanTen Strategies to Normalize Your Blood GlucoseTen Healthy Eating Habits for Children with DiabetesPart V: AppendixesAppendix A: Investing in Food Supplements for Optimum HealthAppendix B: Exchange ListsAppendix C: A Glossary of Key Cooking TermsAppendix D: Conversions of Weights, Measures, and Sugar SubstitutesAppendix E: Other Recipe Sources for People with Diabetes --This text refers to the Paperback edition. | [
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If you or a family member has diabetes, food preparation may seem like a chore or a deprivation. What can you cook that tastes good and fits the diabetes guidelines? The authors of Diabetes Cookbook for Dummies, diabetes expert Alan Rubin (who also wrote Diabetes for Dummies) and registered dietician Fran Stach, have come up with dishes that will please not just the person with diabetes but the whole family. The diabetes diet is healthy for all of us, and if we can make it taste good, we all benefit. That's where this book shines. The 112 recipes are as creative and tasty as they are healthy, yet most take a half hour or less of preparation (plus cooking time). Recipes include Soy Waffles, Crispy Corn French Toast, Portobello Pat, Carrot Soup with Leek and Blood Orange, Mango Tortilla Salad, Oriental Beef and Noodle Salad, and Spaghetti Squash with Fresh Basil, plus a variety of fish, meat, and poultry entres. Some of the recipes were created by chef Denise Sharf; others were contributed by gourmet restaurants. All recipes include nutritional information: calories, protein, carbohydrates, fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, fiber, sodium, and exchanges. Diabetes Cookbook for Dummies is more than a compilation of recipes. The book also gives guidelines for "what, when, and how much" to eat, including tips for visualizing portions (an ounce of meat is the size of a matchbox; an ounce of cheese is the size of a domino; a medium potato is the size of a computer mouse). You'll get shopping and cooking tips and illustrated food-preparation steps to help novice cooks. Like the whole For Dummies line, the style is simple, friendly, clever, and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, such as, "Don't go to a paint store and expect to get thinner there." -- Joan Price Many of us, at the best of times, struggle for inspiration when it comes to cooking and thats without a medical condition that may affect our eating habits and require careful management. The right diet is the foundation of a healthy lifestyle and all the more important for the successful management of diabetes.Fully updated for a UK audience Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies will include the latest dietary recommendations and medical information on diabetes and its management. Packed with over 100 delicious and easy to prepare recipes - for everyday eating and entertaining - alongside a brand new section on packing healthy lunches and picnics, this book will help make mealtimes interesting and healthy. The book also offers guidance on the glycaemic index, nutritional information, diabetic exchanges for each recipe and lifestyle advice to help readers take control of their condition and live life to the full.Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies will feature:Part I: Thriving with DiabetesLiving To Eat With DiabetesEating To Live With DiabetesPlanning Meals for Weight Loss GoalsEating What You Like (Within Reason)Stocking Up at the SupermarketPart II: Healthy Recipes That Taste GreatEnjoying the Benefits of BreakfastStarting Well: Hors dOeuvres and First CoursesSipping Simply Divine SoupsTaking a Leaf From the Salad BarBeing Full of Beans (and Grains and Pasta)Adding Veg to Your MealsBoning Up on Fish CookeryFlocking to PoultryCreating Balanced Meals with MeatsNibbling on SnacksDrooling Over Mouth-Watering DessertsPart III: Eating Away from HomeEating Out as a Nourishing ExperiencePacking a Picnic LunchPart IV: The Part of TensTen (or So) Simple Steps to Change Your Eating HabitsTen Easy Substitutions in Your Eating PlanTen Strategies to Normalize Your Blood GlucoseTen Healthy Eating Habits for Children with DiabetesPart V: AppendixesAppendix A: Investing in Food Supplements for Optimum HealthAppendix B: Exchange ListsAppendix C: A Glossary of Key Cooking TermsAppendix D: Conversions of Weights, Measures, and Sugar SubstitutesAppendix E: Other Recipe Sources for People with Diabetes --This text refers to the Paperback edition. | 27 |
0743483235 | A Hip-Hop Story
| M-One (Dead Prez) Timely and timeless. It's already a classic. Heru Ptah is a Jamaican-born writer, poet, philosopher, and author of Love, God and Revolution. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit his website at www.sunrason.com. Chapter OneI ain't gotta spit'Cause ma fartsFlow better than you Smell better than youMa shit is just better than youI'm a skinny dudeBut dude don't be fooledI'll knock a fat fuckBack to Bellevue'Cause you must be crazy Comin' wit' that weak shitCough one line An' yo fat ass is outta breathThe words are sharp, pungent and cut through shells with a razor's edge. It takes a thick shell to bear it, to hear it, to stand still, all the while crafting an evermore denigrating comeback. As such this pudgy prodigy waited his turn, engulfed in the melee of his peers, pretending not to be fazed by his skinny opponent's stinging aspersions. Waiting for his retort, he meditated on his course of action and how to turn the affections of the ever-growing goading crowd to his favor. It was coming, he could feel it now, Skinny Man had come to the climax of his tirade; the beat was turning to his favor. No time to be tired, think fast, the beat is on me now, here I go...and then nothing. What the hell! Oh shit...I just went blank. Shit, niggas is looking at me. What the hell was I gonna say again? It was something about what he said. But what the fuck did he say? I don't remember. Shit, how the hell I don't remember what to say? If I don't say something, this kid's gon' eat me. I won't be able to open my mouth on the street again. C'mon, God, you can't let that shit happen. Think, think. What the hell was I gon' say? All right, I'll just keep sayin' "yeah yeah" until something comes to me. All right, that did it. Cats stop staring for a second. But I gotta have something by the next time the beat turns over. God, don't do this to me. Here comes the beat. I gotta say something, but what to say? "Yeah, yeah." Think, think...aahhhhhhhhh...there it goes. Nigga you fart 'Cause you all gasYou just garbageSo you talk trashBut I'm the trash collector, garbage disposerAn' I ain't overweightI'm heavyweight, motherfuckerDirty wit' mineHit below the belt lineGive you a uppercut to the cupHave you cough yo' balls upYou should know betterThan to battle the Brooklyn brawlerWhen I'm doneI'ma have yo' ass bawlin' fo' yo' momma.He felt his stride and rode the rhythm. The obligatory Oh Shits began to turn his way. He held nothing back, doing the dozens with precision. It all ate into Skinny Man. He was not as good at concealing his feelings as his robust counterpart. Seeing this, Fat Man edged in for the kill, close enough to kiss. He held the death blow upon his tongue...and unleashed it: along with an inadvertent wad of spit. The Oh shits of the crowd came through clenched teeth. Skinny Man did not wait for an apology. He threw up a fist and connected quickly. Fat Man replied and the entire crowd exploded. The fight ensued outside of the club, Rampage. It was one of the more popular hip-hop nightclubs in lower Manhattan. At seeing the progressing affray two very big, well-dressed bouncers parted their way through and quickly put an end to it. They pulled the two young men apart; who in truth did not want to be fighting, but were merely caught up in the adrenaline of the movement. There were SUVs and all manner of expensive cars parked outside, from the Lexus to the Benz. The bouncers dressed in black suits stood at the door. There was a railing that kept the people lined against the wall. The dense procession extended the stretch of the block and around the corner. The line was a dichotomy of gender and style. The women were dressed from head to toe in the most revealing, tight-fitting things they could have squeezed their frames into, while the men wore loose-fitting denim, complemented by work boots or sneakers, with a T-shirt or some form of sports jersey. The pounding music from inside was well heard. The beat beckoned the people in with baited anticipation.A young man at the front made his way past the bouncers and was handed a flyer as he proceeded. Upon the flyer it read: Hip-hop speak out for justice, Speak out for truth, Free all political prisoners, Fight against the war on terrorism. And on the cover it showed a man with profound eyes, dreadlocks and handcuffs. There was more to be read, but the young man paid it no mind and quickly folded it into his pocket. His mind was already well engaged by the beautiful young girl walking in front of him, keen to the manufactured faded area about her rear. They arrived at the security check where they were frisked. While the muscled guard grabbed at all parts of his body he was far more concerned with the aggressive gropes that the stout female security guard addressed to the girl. When they were finished the girl walked away and the young man approached the female guard."Yo, Ma, tell me how can I get yo' job?"She curled the corner of her lips in sarcasm and prodded him along. He tried to catch up to the girl. He, however, entered the main floor to complete confusion. The club was packed, the crowd thick and the music loud. He looked about without discretion but it was all for naught. He had lost her in the shuffle of flesh and the psychedelic pattern of lights. But within a minute he didn't seem to mind as another beautiful girl squeezed her way across his brow and his thoughts followed the sway of hips. The crowd was dense, being anywhere from fifteen hundred to two thousand people. While bopping their heads to the beat and dancing as much as the space would allow they focused their attentions toward the stage at the DJ. He was well known and, by the smoothness in his scratches, well deserving of his accolades. He was RA, the hottest DJ in the city. Above him, an all-encompassing banner for Bin Laden hung. Bin Laden was the most popular hip-hop act at the time. He was the premier artist in the Crown Records roster; as such, the name of the ubiquitous music juggernaut was imprinted alongside his. And just below Bin Laden's banner was another for BET Freestyle Championship; again the symbol for Crown Records was imprinted, as Crown was the sponsor of both events. The music began to fade as a man and a woman entered the stage. She was cute, medium-tanned, stockily built; well-fitted in her mix of bohemian and hip-hop. He was lean, tall, dark, handsome; attired in a mix of thug and preppy. They were Free and AJ, the hosts of BET's 106 and Park. He was the first to address the crowd, "Hey what's up, New York, how are y'all doing tonight!" And Free followed, "Yo, how's everybody doing out there? Alla y'all lookin' so beautiful. Ain't I right, AJ? Isn't everybody just looking so good tonight?""You are definitely right about that, Free. Especially the sistas; damn, sistas you look good! Y'all making a brother have thoughts to..." He then looked over to Free, who playfully slapped him on his shoulder.ar"Boy, you better stop, before you get yourself beat down looking at some other man's woman.""What you talking about, Free? I can handle my own now. But you're right, you're right, you're right. But I'm just sayin', though, that the sistas look good. And y'all need to give yourselves a round of applause for that.""All right now, everybody, do we all know why we are here?"Reacting to Free's question the crowd shouted out, "Bin Laden!""Yes, we are definitely here in support of our terror boy, Bin Laden," Free responded. "Doing his thing, dropping the bomb shit as always. But what else are we here for?" The crowd again shouted out, "Freestyle Championship!" "That's right, y'all, this is it," AJ remarked. "This is the grand championship of our Freestyle Battles, where two local unsigned talents are going to come up on this stage and do their thing. And when it is all over, one of them won't be unsigned anymore, 'cause he's gonna walk away with a fat-ass record deal from Crown Records, home of Bin Laden, Stalin and Lil' Hitler. Not to mention also being the sponsors of our event tonight." The crowd cheered again as if playing a round of call and response. "Now, AJ, let's tell the people how these two guys got here." "To get to this point both of them had to win an almost impossible nine weeks in a row on our televised Freestyle Battles. It was hard work but they both did it. And they are both here tonight to determine who is the best of the best.""Now, do y'all know who we are talking about?" Free asked.The crowd began to shout out, "FLAWLESS" and "BULL!" The mob was all but evenly split between supporters of Flawless and those of Hannibal. "Damn, AJ, it looks like it's gon' be a war tonight.""That's right, Free; so let's not keep the crowd waiting anymore. Let's get this war started. Let's bring out my main man, Flawless the word shifter; and the undeniable, I tell you I'm scared of this guy, Hannibal the Cannibal."Flawless entered the stage from the left, and Hannibal did so from the right. They were both attractive black men in their early twenties, of average heights and slim builds. Flawless however was the pretty boy. He was more neatly dressed; with his white shell-top sneakers, his light blue jeans, his black loose-fitting T-shirt and his hair: a well-cut blowout. In his Timberland boots Hannibal appeared more rugged. His clothes were darker and baggier, his demeanor sterner and his head was bald. The crowd reacted to the difference in their styles. The women screamed and swooned for Flawless, while the men barked and howled for Hannibal. Through the noise they remained silent; Free broke through the barking. "Now, gentlemen, let's get the rules straight. Basically there are no rules. This isn't like our televised show, so there are no censors. Only rule is: you keep it verbal.""Yeah, brothers, there is no need for any physicalities here. And that goes for the audience as well. I know we all like to keep it gangsta. But let's keep it peaceful as well. Keep it on the mic."<... | [
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M-One (Dead Prez) Timely and timeless. It's already a classic. Heru Ptah is a Jamaican-born writer, poet, philosopher, and author of Love, God and Revolution. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit his website at www.sunrason.com. Chapter OneI ain't gotta spit'Cause ma fartsFlow better than you Smell better than youMa shit is just better than youI'm a skinny dudeBut dude don't be fooledI'll knock a fat fuckBack to Bellevue'Cause you must be crazy Comin' wit' that weak shitCough one line An' yo fat ass is outta breathThe words are sharp, pungent and cut through shells with a razor's edge. It takes a thick shell to bear it, to hear it, to stand still, all the while crafting an evermore denigrating comeback. As such this pudgy prodigy waited his turn, engulfed in the melee of his peers, pretending not to be fazed by his skinny opponent's stinging aspersions. Waiting for his retort, he meditated on his course of action and how to turn the affections of the ever-growing goading crowd to his favor. It was coming, he could feel it now, Skinny Man had come to the climax of his tirade; the beat was turning to his favor. No time to be tired, think fast, the beat is on me now, here I go...and then nothing. What the hell! Oh shit...I just went blank. Shit, niggas is looking at me. What the hell was I gonna say again? It was something about what he said. But what the fuck did he say? I don't remember. Shit, how the hell I don't remember what to say? If I don't say something, this kid's gon' eat me. I won't be able to open my mouth on the street again. C'mon, God, you can't let that shit happen. Think, think. What the hell was I gon' say? All right, I'll just keep sayin' "yeah yeah" until something comes to me. All right, that did it. Cats stop staring for a second. But I gotta have something by the next time the beat turns over. God, don't do this to me. Here comes the beat. I gotta say something, but what to say? "Yeah, yeah." Think, think...aahhhhhhhhh...there it goes. Nigga you fart 'Cause you all gasYou just garbageSo you talk trashBut I'm the trash collector, garbage disposerAn' I ain't overweightI'm heavyweight, motherfuckerDirty wit' mineHit below the belt lineGive you a uppercut to the cupHave you cough yo' balls upYou should know betterThan to battle the Brooklyn brawlerWhen I'm doneI'ma have yo' ass bawlin' fo' yo' momma.He felt his stride and rode the rhythm. The obligatory Oh Shits began to turn his way. He held nothing back, doing the dozens with precision. It all ate into Skinny Man. He was not as good at concealing his feelings as his robust counterpart. Seeing this, Fat Man edged in for the kill, close enough to kiss. He held the death blow upon his tongue...and unleashed it: along with an inadvertent wad of spit. The Oh shits of the crowd came through clenched teeth. Skinny Man did not wait for an apology. He threw up a fist and connected quickly. Fat Man replied and the entire crowd exploded. The fight ensued outside of the club, Rampage. It was one of the more popular hip-hop nightclubs in lower Manhattan. At seeing the progressing affray two very big, well-dressed bouncers parted their way through and quickly put an end to it. They pulled the two young men apart; who in truth did not want to be fighting, but were merely caught up in the adrenaline of the movement. There were SUVs and all manner of expensive cars parked outside, from the Lexus to the Benz. The bouncers dressed in black suits stood at the door. There was a railing that kept the people lined against the wall. The dense procession extended the stretch of the block and around the corner. The line was a dichotomy of gender and style. The women were dressed from head to toe in the most revealing, tight-fitting things they could have squeezed their frames into, while the men wore loose-fitting denim, complemented by work boots or sneakers, with a T-shirt or some form of sports jersey. The pounding music from inside was well heard. The beat beckoned the people in with baited anticipation.A young man at the front made his way past the bouncers and was handed a flyer as he proceeded. Upon the flyer it read: Hip-hop speak out for justice, Speak out for truth, Free all political prisoners, Fight against the war on terrorism. And on the cover it showed a man with profound eyes, dreadlocks and handcuffs. There was more to be read, but the young man paid it no mind and quickly folded it into his pocket. His mind was already well engaged by the beautiful young girl walking in front of him, keen to the manufactured faded area about her rear. They arrived at the security check where they were frisked. While the muscled guard grabbed at all parts of his body he was far more concerned with the aggressive gropes that the stout female security guard addressed to the girl. When they were finished the girl walked away and the young man approached the female guard."Yo, Ma, tell me how can I get yo' job?"She curled the corner of her lips in sarcasm and prodded him along. He tried to catch up to the girl. He, however, entered the main floor to complete confusion. The club was packed, the crowd thick and the music loud. He looked about without discretion but it was all for naught. He had lost her in the shuffle of flesh and the psychedelic pattern of lights. But within a minute he didn't seem to mind as another beautiful girl squeezed her way across his brow and his thoughts followed the sway of hips. The crowd was dense, being anywhere from fifteen hundred to two thousand people. While bopping their heads to the beat and dancing as much as the space would allow they focused their attentions toward the stage at the DJ. He was well known and, by the smoothness in his scratches, well deserving of his accolades. He was RA, the hottest DJ in the city. Above him, an all-encompassing banner for Bin Laden hung. Bin Laden was the most popular hip-hop act at the time. He was the premier artist in the Crown Records roster; as such, the name of the ubiquitous music juggernaut was imprinted alongside his. And just below Bin Laden's banner was another for BET Freestyle Championship; again the symbol for Crown Records was imprinted, as Crown was the sponsor of both events. The music began to fade as a man and a woman entered the stage. She was cute, medium-tanned, stockily built; well-fitted in her mix of bohemian and hip-hop. He was lean, tall, dark, handsome; attired in a mix of thug and preppy. They were Free and AJ, the hosts of BET's 106 and Park. He was the first to address the crowd, "Hey what's up, New York, how are y'all doing tonight!" And Free followed, "Yo, how's everybody doing out there? Alla y'all lookin' so beautiful. Ain't I right, AJ? Isn't everybody just looking so good tonight?""You are definitely right about that, Free. Especially the sistas; damn, sistas you look good! Y'all making a brother have thoughts to..." He then looked over to Free, who playfully slapped him on his shoulder.ar"Boy, you better stop, before you get yourself beat down looking at some other man's woman.""What you talking about, Free? I can handle my own now. But you're right, you're right, you're right. But I'm just sayin', though, that the sistas look good. And y'all need to give yourselves a round of applause for that.""All right now, everybody, do we all know why we are here?"Reacting to Free's question the crowd shouted out, "Bin Laden!""Yes, we are definitely here in support of our terror boy, Bin Laden," Free responded. "Doing his thing, dropping the bomb shit as always. But what else are we here for?" The crowd again shouted out, "Freestyle Championship!" "That's right, y'all, this is it," AJ remarked. "This is the grand championship of our Freestyle Battles, where two local unsigned talents are going to come up on this stage and do their thing. And when it is all over, one of them won't be unsigned anymore, 'cause he's gonna walk away with a fat-ass record deal from Crown Records, home of Bin Laden, Stalin and Lil' Hitler. Not to mention also being the sponsors of our event tonight." The crowd cheered again as if playing a round of call and response. "Now, AJ, let's tell the people how these two guys got here." "To get to this point both of them had to win an almost impossible nine weeks in a row on our televised Freestyle Battles. It was hard work but they both did it. And they are both here tonight to determine who is the best of the best.""Now, do y'all know who we are talking about?" Free asked.The crowd began to shout out, "FLAWLESS" and "BULL!" The mob was all but evenly split between supporters of Flawless and those of Hannibal. "Damn, AJ, it looks like it's gon' be a war tonight.""That's right, Free; so let's not keep the crowd waiting anymore. Let's get this war started. Let's bring out my main man, Flawless the word shifter; and the undeniable, I tell you I'm scared of this guy, Hannibal the Cannibal."Flawless entered the stage from the left, and Hannibal did so from the right. They were both attractive black men in their early twenties, of average heights and slim builds. Flawless however was the pretty boy. He was more neatly dressed; with his white shell-top sneakers, his light blue jeans, his black loose-fitting T-shirt and his hair: a well-cut blowout. In his Timberland boots Hannibal appeared more rugged. His clothes were darker and baggier, his demeanor sterner and his head was bald. The crowd reacted to the difference in their styles. 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B0000IEAI0 | Mexgrocer The Salsa Lovers Gift Pack
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An array of mouthwatering salsas Mexican food gift pack. One more time ... what makes a Mexican meal dance on the table? Whysalsaof course It's the most popular condiment worldwide How many types of salsa are there? Lots Here is a sampler of some of our favorites that make the perfect gift for that special salsalover (or aspiring Mexican chef) in your life Remember, salsa is a staple in every Mexican food aficionado's kitchen. Try these with chips, tacos, spooned over burritos, chiles rellenos, eggs, your favorite meats, fish and even chicken. Go for the gusto Have fun ... and spice up your life in the process | 30 |
B000O75JZU | Hit Parade (John Keller Mysteries)
| Block's assassin, John Keller (Hit Man; Hit List), returns in these loosely linked, well-crafted vignettes of the protagonist on assignment, blithely but expertly eliminating a grab bag of targets: a philandering pro baseball player, a jockey in a fixed horse race, two women who hire him to put down a neighbor's dog, a Cuban exile and more. Manhattan-based Keller works through his agent, Dot, who assigns murders from her home just north in White Plains.Keller, a loner by temperament and trade, has an easy camaraderie with Dot. The two entrepreneurial colleagues strike a casual tone in conversationbut they're discussing death (sometimes in gory detail). With dry wit, Block tracks the pursuits of the morally ambiguous Keller, who hunts rare, pricey stamps for his extensive collection when he's not "taking care of business." Four-time Shamus- and Edgar-winner Block has the reader queasily rooting for the killer as well as the victims, unsettling the usual point of identification and assumptions about right and wrong. (July) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Keller is a hit man. Like all careers, it has its challenges, some imposed by circumstance, others generated by introspection. For example, Keller accepts a contract on an aging baseball star. The job will be easy, but Keller complicates it with reasons that can only be categorized as "inside baseball." There's another job in which he's assigned to kill a jockey, but only if the man wins a fixed race. Since Keller is all about the money, he figures a way to turn the situation into a win-win for himself. He also ponders a retirement in which he will abandon his Manhattan lifestyle for a trailer in the southwestern desert. Block, the best-selling author of the Matt Scudder and Bernie Rhodenbarr series, indulges himself when he dusts off Keller. The humor is even more deadpan than usual, and the vignettes (Keller working as a food-service volunteer after 9/11) are quirky diversions. Oddly, Keller the hit man is also a kind of everyman, pondering such universal questions as, Does this assignment compromise my ethics? Will I ever get another job? Block's legion of fans will savor his subtle wit, his consummate narrative skills, and his idiosyncratic method of celebrating the lives of working folks in America. Wes LukowskyCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Confirmed reviews include: LITERARY REVIEW September OBSERVER 24 Sept SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 24 Sept IRISH TIMES 23 October --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition. Lawrence Block is one of the most widely recognized names in the mystery genre. He has been named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America and is a four-time winner of the prestigious Edgar and Shamus Awards, as well as a recipient of prizes in France, Germany, and Japan. He received the Diamond Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Associationonly the third American to be given this award. He is a prolific author, having written more than fifty books and numerous short stories, and is a devoted New Yorker and an enthusiastic global traveler. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition. | [
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Block's assassin, John Keller (Hit Man; Hit List), returns in these loosely linked, well-crafted vignettes of the protagonist on assignment, blithely but expertly eliminating a grab bag of targets: a philandering pro baseball player, a jockey in a fixed horse race, two women who hire him to put down a neighbor's dog, a Cuban exile and more. Manhattan-based Keller works through his agent, Dot, who assigns murders from her home just north in White Plains.Keller, a loner by temperament and trade, has an easy camaraderie with Dot. The two entrepreneurial colleagues strike a casual tone in conversationbut they're discussing death (sometimes in gory detail). With dry wit, Block tracks the pursuits of the morally ambiguous Keller, who hunts rare, pricey stamps for his extensive collection when he's not "taking care of business." Four-time Shamus- and Edgar-winner Block has the reader queasily rooting for the killer as well as the victims, unsettling the usual point of identification and assumptions about right and wrong. (July) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Keller is a hit man. Like all careers, it has its challenges, some imposed by circumstance, others generated by introspection. For example, Keller accepts a contract on an aging baseball star. The job will be easy, but Keller complicates it with reasons that can only be categorized as "inside baseball." There's another job in which he's assigned to kill a jockey, but only if the man wins a fixed race. Since Keller is all about the money, he figures a way to turn the situation into a win-win for himself. He also ponders a retirement in which he will abandon his Manhattan lifestyle for a trailer in the southwestern desert. Block, the best-selling author of the Matt Scudder and Bernie Rhodenbarr series, indulges himself when he dusts off Keller. The humor is even more deadpan than usual, and the vignettes (Keller working as a food-service volunteer after 9/11) are quirky diversions. Oddly, Keller the hit man is also a kind of everyman, pondering such universal questions as, Does this assignment compromise my ethics? Will I ever get another job? Block's legion of fans will savor his subtle wit, his consummate narrative skills, and his idiosyncratic method of celebrating the lives of working folks in America. Wes LukowskyCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Confirmed reviews include: LITERARY REVIEW September OBSERVER 24 Sept SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 24 Sept IRISH TIMES 23 October --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition. Lawrence Block is one of the most widely recognized names in the mystery genre. He has been named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America and is a four-time winner of the prestigious Edgar and Shamus Awards, as well as a recipient of prizes in France, Germany, and Japan. He received the Diamond Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Associationonly the third American to be given this award. He is a prolific author, having written more than fifty books and numerous short stories, and is a devoted New Yorker and an enthusiastic global traveler. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition. | 31 |
B0006YSA5M | California construction law
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0742522288 | Unguarded Gates: A History of America's Immigration Crisis
| Otis Graham brings new eyes and new scholarship to the agonizing question of immigration, a subject that usually engenders too much emotion and too little objective analysis. Unguarded Gates: A History of America's Immigration Crisis is a clear-eyed look at both the pluses and minuses of our new immigration patterns. Readable and compelling. (Richard D. Lamm, Governor of Colorado, 19751987, Co-Director of the Institute for Public Policy Studies, University of Denver )Otis Graham's Unguarded Gates is a vivid reminder that our contemporary debates over immigration have a long history. Graham shows powerfully how immigration has proven a continual challenge to the ability of America to realize its highest ideals and, as such, is must reading for understanding one of the pivotal issue of our times. (John Bodnar, Indiana University )A much-needed guide to an unknown history: America's constant effort to control immigration in the national interest, culminating in the legislation that ended out-of-control immigration in the 1920s. Graham performs a great service in calmly stripping away the self-serving myths that grew up around this cut-off, caused its abandonment in the 1960s, and still poison debate today, as immigration once again reaches crisis proportions. (Peter Brimelow, editor of VDARE.com and author of Alien Nation )Otis Graham has been reflecting on the consequences of large-scale immigration in the U.S. for many years. Unguarded Gates distills many of those insights in a coherent and informative fashion. Regardless of one's perspective on the immigration debate, Graham's analysis shows that the making of an informed policy requires that we all become aware of how immigration is changing the country. (George Borjas, Harvard University )Graham performs a valuable service in refuting modern-day charges that racist motivations and eugenicist theories underlay the Progressives' move to restrict immigration. Unguarded Gates is especially enlightening in its analysis of the vast cultural rift between the elites, who benefit economically from cheap immigrant labor, and average Americans, who bear the costs and consequences of the present mass immigration. (National Review )Ethnic activistsalong, unfortunately, with most liberals and historians of immigrationrefuse to grant that efforts to restrict immigration can be inspired by anything but nativism, racism, and fear of 'the Other.' This book shows how ungroundedand unfairthat assumption is. Graham's evidence and argumentation should go far toward making reasonable discussion of the issue possible. (Philip Gleason, professor emeritus, University of Notre Dame )This is a clear and rational little bookno small accomplishment when the subject is immigration.Unguarded Gates: A History of America's Immigration Crisis is less a policy tome or a polemic than a fine exercise in simply telling it like it was. (Sunday Washington Times )Unguarded Gates provides an intriguing historical survey of America's immigration crisis. . . . This should be a part of any college-level collection on immigrant social issues. (The Bookwatch ) Otis L. Graham, Jr. is professor of history, emeritus, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author or editor of over 15 books, including Debating American Immigration, 1882Present (with Roger Daniels) and Environmental Politics and Policy, 1960s to 1990s. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. | [
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087678094X | Italic Handwriting Series Book C
| "I am behind this handwriting 100%. Everyone can read it. Its easy to teach, and the results are beautiful..." -- Val Hornburg, Teacher and winner of the Miriam Joseph Farrell Award for Distinguished Teaching"Inga Dubay and Barbara Getty deserve the thanks of every teacher and every parent. Its a breakthrough at last!" -- Betty Edwards, PhD, Author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain"My daughters handwriting has improved dramatically in just two months of sporadic use. I can now read everything..." -- Homeschooling parent, Washington, Pennsylvania Barbara Getty, MAT, has taught calligraphy and handwriting for over 25 years, and elementary school for 14 years. She has been an instructor at Lewis and Clark College, Portland Community College and Portland State University (in Portland, Oregon), currently conducts workshops on calligraphy and italic handwriting, and was featured on CNN. She studied with Lloyd Reynolds and Jacqueline Svaren. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and published in International Calligraphy Today. She is a graduate of Lewis and Clark College, did postgraduate work at Portland State University, receiving her MAT from Lewis and Clark College. Inga Dubay, BA, has taught calligraphy at the Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, Oregon, since 1975, and was Book Arts Department Head for six years. She also taught at Portland State University and has conducted numerous calligraphy and handwriting workshops across the country including several International Calligraphy Conferences. She studied at Mills College, received her degree from the University of Oregon, and did post-graduate work at the Art Academy in Oslo, Norway, the University of Oregon, and the University of California, Berkeley. She studied calligraphy with Lloyd Reynolds and Lois McClelland. Her work has been shown in national and international juried and invitational exhibitions, and has been published in Calligraphy Review, Martha Stewart Living and Lettering Arts. Both authors travel all over the country giving seminars to physicians and medical professionals on how to write legibly. | [
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"I am behind this handwriting 100%. Everyone can read it. Its easy to teach, and the results are beautiful..." -- Val Hornburg, Teacher and winner of the Miriam Joseph Farrell Award for Distinguished Teaching"Inga Dubay and Barbara Getty deserve the thanks of every teacher and every parent. Its a breakthrough at last!" -- Betty Edwards, PhD, Author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain"My daughters handwriting has improved dramatically in just two months of sporadic use. I can now read everything..." -- Homeschooling parent, Washington, Pennsylvania Barbara Getty, MAT, has taught calligraphy and handwriting for over 25 years, and elementary school for 14 years. She has been an instructor at Lewis and Clark College, Portland Community College and Portland State University (in Portland, Oregon), currently conducts workshops on calligraphy and italic handwriting, and was featured on CNN. She studied with Lloyd Reynolds and Jacqueline Svaren. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and published in International Calligraphy Today. She is a graduate of Lewis and Clark College, did postgraduate work at Portland State University, receiving her MAT from Lewis and Clark College. Inga Dubay, BA, has taught calligraphy at the Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, Oregon, since 1975, and was Book Arts Department Head for six years. She also taught at Portland State University and has conducted numerous calligraphy and handwriting workshops across the country including several International Calligraphy Conferences. She studied at Mills College, received her degree from the University of Oregon, and did post-graduate work at the Art Academy in Oslo, Norway, the University of Oregon, and the University of California, Berkeley. She studied calligraphy with Lloyd Reynolds and Lois McClelland. Her work has been shown in national and international juried and invitational exhibitions, and has been published in Calligraphy Review, Martha Stewart Living and Lettering Arts. Both authors travel all over the country giving seminars to physicians and medical professionals on how to write legibly. | 35 |
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067400082X | Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America
| Fass (history, Univ. of California, Berkeley) focuses on youth in this work. Fass traces the history of kidnapping in the United States from the abduction of four-year-old Charley Ross in 1874 to the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz and more recently the abduction and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas. Fass offers well-researched highlights of known cases such as the Leopold and Loeb, Lindbergh, and Gloria Vanderbilt kidnappings; however, she fails to deliver behind-the-scenes revelations or speculations on why kidnapping crimes occur or why today they have become increasingly violent. Readers are left to speculate on what role the media play in this increasing crime against society and its vulnerable children. Nevertheless, this is a good starting point for further research or psychohistorical analysis. Recommended for larger public and academic libraries.?Sandra Isaacson, U.S. EPA, Kansas City, Kan.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Fass (History/Univ. of Calif., Berkeley) focuses her grim study on the public's reaction to the horrific crime of kidnapping, from Charley Ross to Polly Klaas. The 1874 kidnapping of four-year-old Charley Ross, the first for ransom, captivated the public for years after, and Fass writes well of Charley's gradual transformation from lost child to holy innocent, celebrated in newspapers and in a bestselling book written by his father. The media frenzy that greeted Charley's disappearance--decades later, men still claimed to be the lost boy- -turned into a frightful circus that was responsible for the loss of more than one victim as kidnappers panicked in the glare of publicity. Fass also profiles Betty Jean Benedicto, a baby-snatcher who gained weight to imitate pregnancy and starved herself to mimic Hanna Marcus, the depressed mother of the child she had stolen. Benedicto was released early by a sympathetic judge--and with the best wishes of the Marcuses, who felt Benedicto treated their baby kindly. She went on to steal another infant. Male kidnappers, unsurprisingly, are dealt with more severely by the public. In 1924, Leopold and Loeb, the University of Chicago prodigies who killed 14-year-old Bobby Franks, were viewed as homosexual devils. And Richard Hauptmann, whether guilty or not of killing the Lindbergh baby in 1932, was executed for the crime. Modern kidnappings, like that of Etan Patz, are viewed as the work of a pedophile with a desire to exploit a child through pornography or prostitution. While most current kidnappings are more along the lines of a noncustodial parent stealing the child, and stranger kidnappings are still very rare, in the public's view, sexual predators lurk everywhere. Fass writes about organizations that provide ``kidnap insurance,'' and the histrionic tactics used to make parents aware of purportedly rampant pedophilia in this country. Despite its academic tone, a sad book with compelling stories. (27 b photos, not seen) -- Copyright 1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Riveting...Fass gives us a tour of the crime parents fear most, offering one terrifying detail after another...In Fass's view, each kidnapping provides a warped mirror image of the society in which it takes place...By looking at how each era reacts to a particular abduction, she says, we can learn more about our own time. (San Francisco Chronicle)A heartfelt and disturbing book...Kidnapped is not only a convincing analysis of child abduction; it is a compelling example of how studies of the past can illuminate the present and suggest alternative futures. (Journal of American History)In analyzing the cases of Leopold and Loeb, the Lindbergh baby, and others, Fass finds that the publicity surrounding kidnapping has expressed some of our deepest concerns about law and family, gender and sexuality, crime and insanity...Fass's book is an original look at an important and historically neglected subject. (Lingua Franca) Riveting...Fass gives us a tour of the crime parents fear most, offering one terrifying detail after another...In Fass's view, each kidnapping provides a warped mirror image of the society in which it takes place...By looking at how each era reacts to a particular abduction, she says, we can learn more about our own time. (San Francisco Chronicle) Paula S. Fass is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. | [
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