Complete Book of Jumps

Book Description

Maximize your jumping potential with Complete Book of Jumps!

Coaches Ed Jacoby and Bob Fraley draw on their combined 60 years of coaching experience to help long jumpers, triple jumpers, high jumpers, and pole vaulters achieve new personal records. They break down each event into key phases--from approach to landing--to teach proper jumping technique and to show jumpers how to avoid common technical flaws. They also provide a strength and development program specifically for jumpers and 16 event-specific workouts that fine-tune skills.

Use the practical, proven techniques in Complete Book of Jumps to go higher and farther than the competition.

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Very informative and well written!.......2007-05-13

TJ and LJ were my specialties in high school and college, and I have been an avid technical student of the TJ and LJ events for over 20 years, as both an athlete and a coach. The Complete Book of Jumps is a book that I wish I would have found long ago. It's far and away the best text I've found on the subject of jumps.

Very helpful........2007-04-03

This excellent book breaks down all phases of the jumps, ie: long jump, high jump, triple jump, and pole vault. The book discusses the science and technique of many successful jumpers throughout the world and breaks down each phase of the jump. There is also great training and conditioning information as well.

Great book, great results........1999-12-29

Not only was this book easy to understand, but I went from "no 20 foot long jumpers" to having three that went over 21 feet. Great stuff on periodization. Easy to understand and easy to implement.

the book did not explain what to do clearly........1999-09-01

the book did not explain it clarel

An excellent jumping traing book;thourough, clear, helpful........1998-11-22

I was happily suprised by this book. I'm used to seeing general track and field books or "specialized" books that are nothing of the sort. This book, however, is wonderful. It covers all aspects of the long, triple, high and pole vault jumping events, form the first training day to the approach to the landing to the last day of season. In fact, it gives a comprehensive training plan for the whole year. Plus, "The Complete Book of Jumps" gives really good, clear explanation, complete with illustrations, of each of the jumps. It's definitely worth the money and the read, even for half the information it has!

THE FORM BOOK: JUMPS 1994/1995: A COMPLETE RECORD OF ALL JUMPS RACING IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND FROM JUNE 5TH, 1994, TO JUNE 3RD, 1995.

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THE FORM BOOK: JUMPS 1994/1995: A COMPLETE RECORD OF ALL JUMPS RACING IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND FROM JUNE 5TH, 1994, TO JUNE 3RD, 1995.

Manufacturer: Racing Post
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1898746060

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breeding ground.......2007-04-04

I was surprised to say....i truly enjoyed reading this book. jaid black is a creative writer and hope to see more books coming up

lover of sci-fi romance.......2007-03-04

For some reason I really enjoyed this book, I think the story fired my imagination. After I finished the book and thought about it, a lot of things didn't seem logical. Oh well, I still enjoyed it

HOT!.......2006-01-04

When Commander Alexandria Frazier left on an intergalactic mission for NASA, she knew that when she and her crew returned some 1500 years later, that many things will have changed. However, when she returns to a post-apocalyptic planet, she has to deal with more changes that she could ever have expected. Two races inhabit this brave new world, the human-like Takuri who nourish a matriarchal society, and the reptiloid Xandi who prey on them. The king of the Xandi wants Alex - to own her, to dominate her, to turn into his plaything. What is her fate on this godforsaken world?

Wow, what a positively HOT book! OK, perhaps there is better erotica out there, but I loved this book! It has an excellent combination of hot and steamy sex and love. Plus, I did like the science-fiction angle.

So, if you want a sci-fi / erotic romance book, then this is the one for you.

(Review of Breeding Ground by Jaid Black)

With the Minority on This One.......2005-12-13

I'm sorry to say that I'm in the minority on what I thought about "Breeding Ground" by Jaid Black. The story was boring, as another reviewer states, and I couldn't wait for the book to be over. The characters are completely unmemorable and I was disappointed to realize that I would never want to pick this book up again. I've only read one other Jaid Black book, The Possession, which I loved (correction: I also read her book The Empress's New Clothes, also very good). I resisted buying this book for a long time, but after seeing so many positive reviews on it I decided to give it a shot. I should have gone with my gut instincts. I think another reviewers thought on the similarities between Breeding Ground and Planet of the Apes/Time Machine is very close to the mark, you'll definitely get a sense of that primitive, we're not in current day earth anymore type feel. I just feel that the story could have taken to a much higher and better level if Black had just pushed it a little further. The intimate scenes were mediocre, especially by erotica standards. There's definitely something missing from this book and it turned out to be such a disappointing waste of time and money.

If you're really into paranormal/sci-fi/fantasy romance, and you like the romance more on the steamy side, try Lora Leigh, Cheyenne McCray or Lauren Dane. I'll put Breeding Ground in my giveaway box, but hope that Black comes out with some better tales in the future.

amazing story.......2005-11-23

This is easily one of the best books I've ever read. The suspense will have you on the edge of your seat, the romance and sex are hot and intense. The book reminds me of a cross between Planet of the Apes and Time Machine. The twist at the end will throw you for a loop! Great story, complex characters, and did I mention the highly charged ending? I hope she writes a sequel soon!

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ARACHNOPHOBIA TIMES TEN!!!!
Ravenova's right on the money.
Breeding Ground
Just okay
Scary!!

Breeding Ground
Sarah Pinborough
Manufacturer: Leisure Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ARACHNOPHOBIA TIMES TEN!!!!.......2007-08-27

I actually read this book quite a while ago, yet it still dwells in my head and causes me to have nightmares to this very day. This author does a wonderful job with her characters and story line and I was drawn into her webbed catastrophe as if I was there. Amazing book and one that I can truly say has left me traumatized.

Ravenova's right on the money........2007-07-13

WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS

I can't really add too much to Ravenova's review. She (he?) said it all first, and said it better.

One thing I do want to just reiterate was the almost complete lack of characterization. Now... maybe I've been spoiled by Stephen King, Clive Barker, hell, even Richard Laymon, but I NEED more characterization than Pinborough offered in this book. This was the print equivalent of watching one of those really schlocky SciFi Channel movies on Saturday night. As Ravenova said, many (most) of the characters, especially those introduced in the last half, were no more than ciphers, just names on a page.

Even Matt, the protagonist and narrator, was shallow and unsympathetic. Now, I'm in no position to tell a writer her craft, but I think I'm qualified to say what does and does not work for me. And Matt just didn't do it. Frankly, he was a weaseley little bitch. The constant self-pity and whining, and justification of hopping into the sack with a new girl mere days after his fiancee dies horribly, they just combined at the end to make me hope the book would wind up with him revealing that he was dying horribly of some mutant disease, and that this was all being frantically scribbled down by him before the end. This was especially ironic considering that Matt felt exactly the same way about another character in the novel.

Ah well. It was a semi-entertaining way to burn a few hours. Normally, I'd give a book like this two stars, but the ideas presented in it were interesting enough (and the ending seems to blatantly suggest there'll be a sequel), that I'll give it an extra star on the hope that Pinborough will write a sequel telling us exactly what the hell was going on in the first place. Because, even though the book had its creepy moments and cool visual scenes, there wasn't really much _story_ there, if you know what I mean.

Breeding Ground.......2007-07-01

From start to finish this is a proven horror novel at its supreme best. You won't put it down, and if you do--well, you won't want to. Trust me.
This was, simply a brilliant, dark, delicious tale that gives a new meaning to...breeding.

--Joseph McGee, author of In the Wake of the Night, Phil's Place and Darkness Won't Rest: Phils Place II

Just okay.......2007-04-04

The first two chapters blew me away. I couldn't WAIT to get into the middle of the book. But it took an unexpected turn for the worst. I had great expectations for this one, but I was sorely disappointed. Even the ending went unresolved.

Scary!!.......2007-01-08

This is one of those rare horror novels that hits the ground running on Page One and doesn't break stride once all the way through. Like Graham Masterton, Sarah Pinborough is an English writer, and there is something indefinably creepy about horror novels written by British authors that I just adore; the BREEDING GROUND is a perfect example. Even though Ms. Pinborough's setting is quite modern, there's something of the clanking chain and dank, moldering castle overarching her narrative, and it's stunningly effective in elevating the chill factor. Matthew and Chloe are a young couple with a new baby on the way. Their concerns are the same as for expectant parents since the beginning of time: the health of their growing fetus, weight gain, morning sickness and such. Chloe and Matt are typical expectant parents, but when Chloe delivers, it is something that neither she or Matt could have expected in their wildest nightmares. Their child isn't...well...it isn't right at all. It isn't even human. And women all over the countryside are giving birth to these horrifying, spidery monstrosities that are an entirely new species, parasites that use their hosts for food and as hosts for their own dreadful spawn, leaving behind web-enshrouded ghost towns that stand as bleak, silent evidence of their evolutionary success. And the monsters are spreading exponentially! BREEDING GROUND is a wonderfully entertaining and shriek-inspiring novel beautifully wrought by an author with an unflinching eye and a steady hand.

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Even Nastier sequel to SLUGS!
Nasty sequel to the garden variety monster yarn.
Give the author credit!
sorry, can't see the Hutson appeal
Good sequel to Slugs, but on a much larger scale.

Breeding Ground
Shaun Hutson
Manufacturer: Time Warner Paperbacks
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Deep in the dirty sewers of London there is a Breeding Ground ...

The slugs have come back ... slowly... silently... they slither along dank, fetid tunnels into the city in search of human flesh. Their insatiable need knows no bounds.

But now they bring a new horror - a plague which spreads insanity and death, transforming its victims into grotesque, crazed killers.

Caught in this maelstrom of horror is Dr. Alan Finch - the only man capable of destroying the Breeding Ground forever...

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Even Nastier sequel to SLUGS!.......2006-11-13

Once again, Shaun Hutson demonstrates his ability to make the slimy little gastropods known as slugs scary, and does it even better in this sequel to his first bestselling novel. Well naturally, the slugs are back, and have moved from the small England town in the first book to the sewers of London in this novel. The sewers are the breeding ground of the title. Well, the only new feature to this novel is that the slime trails made by the slugs turn people into savage, demented killers and maniacs if they are touched. Apart from that, nothing different from the novel. There is a main character named Alan Finch who is apparently a doctor, but like the health inspector in SLUGS, doesn't need to be a part of the plot since he does nothing but try to save people, to no effect. And obviously, there is lots of gore and good descriptions of people being eaten in this book, and several graphic sex scenes. AND....the slug's lengths are exaggerated like in the first book. My favorite scene: The guy who goes to the strip club for about $20 worth of entertainment and dies a very stupid death. You'll see what I'm talking about when you buy the book!

Nasty sequel to the garden variety monster yarn........2002-02-28

Those pesky, slimey, disgusting garden pests have moved to the sewers of London. While they chow down on their unfortunate victims, their slime trails drive any and all that ingest them to violent madness. Lots of sex and violence with little plot to get in the way of the story, as good old boy Joe Bob Briggs so aptly put it. Fans of the first novel with no doubt find more of the same to enjoy here in this lightning paced read. For animal rampage buffs only.

Give the author credit!.......2001-11-13

Hutson is rarely given the credit he deserves. So I will try to give him some here.
Since the synopsis tells you what the book is about, I won't cover old ground. What I will say is that Hutson has a wonderful writing style. Much better then some of his better known contemporaries. His writing keeps the story flowing smoothly and allows the reader to get involved with the characters and the, generally unpleasant, situations they find themselves in. As for the gore factor, I don't see that it exceeds many other famous writers. For instance, if you enjoy Bentley Little's work, you shouldn't find Hutson's too hard to stomach.
I heartily recommend you try one of his works and make up your own mind!

sorry, can't see the Hutson appeal.......1999-07-13

never before have I felt compelled to read the entire output of an author to find out why on earth people read it, I suppose renegades and shadows start inching towards originality, and if I ever have to answer the question 'what three books have changed your life the most and why?' I'd pick one of Hutson's, becuse he tries so hard to be gross and horrific but manages a horoeic faliure and becomes funny, and absolutely impossible to take seriously as horror.

Good sequel to Slugs, but on a much larger scale........1999-06-29

The book itself is very similar to its prequel, Slugs. But, because of Hutson's fabulous method of writing horror the fact that this story is on a much larger scale, it is a fabulous read!!

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Breeding Ground
Shaun Hutson
Manufacturer: Time Warner Books UK
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OW55MM

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Breeding Ground
Madelaine Montague
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As bizarre as the 'dream' was that Gaby experienced the night she spent trapped in the temple of the fertility god, Anka, she would have just dismissed it as the most fabulous wet dream she'd ever had--except her dream lover/god followed her home.Anka has an agenda that is disconcerting to say the very least--he's decided he's ready to procreate, and Gaby is his 'chosen'. The big problem is that he can't do so unless he 'acquires' a human body and Gaby's not only not thrilled with the first one he brings along for the job, she's proving downright impossible to please!Rating: Contains explicit sexual content, violence, graphic adult language, and some situations which could be offensive to sensitive readers.

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CAPTIVES: AND BREEDING GROUND
SHAUN HUTSON
Manufacturer: TIME WARNER PAPERBACKS
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Binding: Paperback

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Detective Inspector Frank Gregson must investigate a series of savage and apparently motiveless murders. Moreover, they are carbon copies of killings committed years earlier - committed by men currently incarcerated in one of Britain's maximum security prisons. How could this be?

Crow-waterfowl relationships: Based on preliminary studies on Canadian breeding grounds (Circular / United States Department of Agriculture)

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Crow-waterfowl relationships: Based on preliminary studies on Canadian breeding grounds (Circular / United States Department of Agriculture)
E. R Kalmbach
Manufacturer: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
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England's Eastenders: From Bobby Moore to David Beckham, a Breeding Ground for Brilliance

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England's Eastenders: From Bobby Moore to David Beckham, a Breeding Ground for Brilliance
Richard Lewis
Manufacturer: Mainstream Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 184018499X
Release Date: 2005-08-05

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London's East End is an area synonymous with football success worldwide largely because of the legendary Sunday football mecca of Hackney Marshes, a training ground which, over the last 35 years, has developed star after star for English football. The East End of London has unleashed some of the country's greatest players and personalities, including Jimmy Greaves, Terry Venables, and more recently Paul Ince, Ashley Cole, and the finest modern-day footballing hero of them all, David Beckham—who started off playing on The Marshes. This title celebrates a tradition that began in the swinging Sixties, and moves through the decades to show how the precedent set by Bobby Moore when he held the World Cup at Wembley in 1966 was just a stop-off point in the history of this breeding ground of brilliance.

A REPORT ON THE WHOOPING CRANE'S NORTHERN BREEDING GROUNDS A Joint Project of Canadian Wildlife Service, National Audubon Society & U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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A REPORT ON THE WHOOPING CRANE'S NORTHERN BREEDING GROUNDS A Joint Project of Canadian Wildlife Service, National Audubon Society & U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Manufacturer: National Audubon Society
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ASIN: B000H5BZF2

Balance sheet becomes breeding ground for fraud.: An article from: Journal of Accountancy

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Balance sheet becomes breeding ground for fraud.: An article from: Journal of Accountancy
Charles R., Jr. Lundelius
Manufacturer: American Institute of CPA's
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Accountancy, published by American Institute of CPA's on May 1, 2003. The length of the article is 496 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Balance sheet becomes breeding ground for fraud.
Author: Charles R., Jr. Lundelius
Publication: Journal of Accountancy (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2003
Publisher: American Institute of CPA's
Volume: 195 Issue: 5 Page: 20(1)

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Saving Socrates

Almost wonderful

Intriguing But Ultimately Unsatisfying

almost

A real page turner

The Plot to Save Socrates
Paul Levinson
Manufacturer: Tor Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0765311976
Release Date: 2007-02-20

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Paul Levinsons astonishing new SF novel is a surprise and a delight: In the year 2042, Sierra, a young graduate student in Classics, is shown a recently discovered new dialog of Socrates, in which a time traveler tries to argue that Socrates might escape death by travel to the future! Thomas, the elderly scholar who has shown her the document, disappears, and Sierra immediately begins to track down the provenance of the manuscript. The trail leads her to a time machine in a gentlemens club that exists in London and in New York, as well as into the pastwhere a time traveler from her future is posing as Heron of Alexandria in 150 AD. Complications, mysteries, and time loops proliferate as Sierra tries to discern who is planning to save the greatest philosopher in human history. She finds that time travel raises more questions than it answers. Fascinating historical characters from Alcibiades (of the honeyed thighs) and Appleton, the great nineteenth century American publisher, to Socrates himself appear. With surprises in every chapter, Paul Levinson has outdone himself in The Plot to Save Socrates.

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Saving Socrates.......2007-07-21

I love time travel stories. My favorite time travel Star Trek: The Next Generation story is "Time's Arrow" Part 1 and 2 where Data's head was found in a 19th century San Francisco excavation and the away team from enterprise have to travel back in time to discover why. In the process, they met up with Mark Twain.

Time travel story is a wonderful marix of paradoxes with which good authors can play fanciful games with historical figures and events. I grew up on a diet of time travel stories from Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Greg Bear, Ben Bova, and Gregory Benford.

Thus when I discovered Paul Levinson's book at Kinokuriya bookstore in Singapore, I snap it up at once. Not only is it a time travel story, but it involves the Greeks and Greek philosophers like Socrates, Plato, Alcibiades, Antisthenes, and inventor Heron of Alexandria. I have always been fascinated by the question on how Greek philosophy would have developed if Socrates had not been executed by drinking hemlock by the Athenians. Would it have taken a totally different direction?

Will democracy has taken a different direction? (Socrates was condemned by the 500 members of the Athenian assembly for corrupting the minds of their young. Socrates called this fledging democracy "mob rule" and wanted to use his death to show the inadequacy of democracy. His student, Plato speaks of philosopher kings rather than democracy).

Will Christianity be different if Socrates had lived longer? Greek philosophy influence on the development of Christian thinking through Origen, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas cannot be denied.

The novel started by the discovery of a fragment of an ancient dialogue of Socrates where he was offered a chance to escape through time and leaving behind a clone of himself by the future time traveler so that it seems that Socrates would have been executed. In his story, Levinson did not deal much with science. His mode of travel are chairs that are programmed to a certain time period and are located in London, New York, and Athens. He did not make the effort to explain the physics of time travel, paradoxes, the butterfly effect, and effect of two self in the same moment of time. This makes his story not too believable.

There is also the large number of characters time traveling which make it confusing, especially if Roman mercenaries from another time period were brought in. In the end, it turned out that Socrates was dying of brain cancer anyway and cannot be saved even with medicine from the future.

It would have been great novel if Levinson has been clearer in his plotting. It is also a mystery novel because we are guessing throughout the novel, who is actually the time traveler who set the whole plot to save Socrates. However, I was swamped with details about ancient Greece, philosophers, and also their incredible ability to travel around Londonium, Athens, and even to the Americas.

This novel however offers an interesting idea, that Socrates is actually dying from brain tumor and that is why he accepted the Athenian death penalty. History recorded that he had to wait for 30 days for the hemlock to arrive and he refused an escape offer by his disciple, Crito. If he did not have the brain tumor would he have escape? Levinson notes that "I.F. Stones argues that Socrates may also have wanted his death penalty carried out as a way of permanently shaming the democracy he hated. In any case, that was certainly the result: the death of Socrates by prescribed hemlock in 399BC redounds as one of the worst cases in history of a dissident destroyed by government, all the worst because that government was the world's first known democracy." (p.270). This implies that Socrates have an inkling on his own importance in Greek philosophy.

Almost wonderful.......2007-07-19

Several previous reviews have hit this right on the head. The book starts with great promise (interesting premise, nice mix of historical and philosophical detail, some nifty plot twists) but still ends up being somewhat unsatisfying. Initially, the pace of the book is decent, but the characters feel flat. The last couple chapters of the book seems rushed and forced as if the author lost interest and decided to tie everything up as quickly as possible. I'd still classify it as a worthwhile read, mainly due to the strength of the first half of the book.

Intriguing But Ultimately Unsatisfying.......2007-05-10

This book could have been really fantastic. Time travel, ancient Greeks & Romans, Alexandria, I mean, it was all there. Intellectually, the book is actually pretty good. Intelligent, philosophical. A couple of nice plot twists. However. Levinson's writing is so spare you feel like you're reading some kind of graphic novel -- without the pictures. He includes almost no descriptions. His characters are extremely wooden. His sole female character (who every male character is in love with - give me a BREAK) is so poorly written you just have to laugh. To keep from crying. Ultimately, it failed to satisfy -- extremely disappointing as it had so much potential. Perhaps Levinson should co-author with someone who can flesh out his intriguing plot.

almost.......2007-03-07

I have read previous Paul Levinson novels and found them very interesting. This is my least favorite. It may be the time travel theme. There are so many time travel novels that we are used to the time travel paradoxes. Levinson does not have a really creative addition to the time travel novel, except perhaps the confusion of time travel which he handles by bouncing the story through a variety of times. Yet this device gets tiring. He moves characters around just to do so.

Socrates is an interesting choice, because he was'nt a scientist only a gadfly. There is a question of the real importance of Socrates.

A real page turner.......2007-03-01

Paul Levinson expands the imagination in his page turning science fiction novel. The well developed characters felt so real one could believe they actually existed! I couldn't put it down. Well done!

The Plot to Save Socrates (Audiofy Digital Audiobook Chips)

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The Plot to Save Socrates (Audiofy Digital Audiobook Chips)

Manufacturer: Audiofy/Listen & Live
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Cards
ASIN: 160083339X

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This Audiofy audiobook chip packs Mark Shanahan's full nine hour reading of "The Plot to Save Socrates" on a tiny memory card. A single Audiofy audiobook chip, hardly larger than a stamp, holds a complete digital audiobook, and saves the last listening position automatically, unlike CDs. With an SD memory card slot or low-cost adapter - like those for digital cameras - this Audiofy audiobook chip can be played on Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh desktop computers or laptops (Microsoft Windows XP/2000/Me/98, or Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and above) or transferred to Apple iPod media players. Audiobook chips also move seamlessly to most Palm OS and Pocket PC handheld PDAs with SD expansion slots, as well as Treo and Windows Mobile "smartphones" (Palm OS 5.2 or Windows Mobile 2002 and above)... Paul Levinson's astonishing new Sf novel is a surprise and a delight: In the year 2042, Sierra, a young graduate student in Classics is shown a new dialog of Socrates, recently discovered, in which a time traveler tries to argue that Socrates might escape death by travel to the future! Thomas, the elderly scholar who has shown her the document, disappears, and Sierra immediately begins to track down the provenance of the manuscript, with the help of her classical scholar boyfriend, Max. The trail leads her to a time machine in a gentlemen's club in London and in New York, and into the past -- and to a time traveler from her future, posing as Heron of Alexandria in 150 AD. Complications, mysteries, travels, and time loops proliferate as Sierra tries to discern who is planning to save the greatest philosopher in human history, or to do so herself. And she finds that time travel raises more questions than it answers. Fascinating historical characters from Alcibiades (of the honeyed thighs) and Thomas Appleton, the great 19th century American publisher, to Socrates himself appear. with surprises in every chapter, Paul Levinson has outdone himself in The Plot to Save Socrates.

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For over thirty years Jews have turned to Rabbi Maurice Lamm's classic work for direction and consolation. Selected by The New York Times as one of the ten best religious books of the year when it was first published in 1969, The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning leads the family and friends of the deceased through the most difficult chapter of life-from the moment of death through the funeral service, the burial, and the various periods of mourning.

Now, in this thoroughly revised and expanded edition, Rabbi Lamm explores a wide range of new issues and questions that Jews of the twenty-first century must address. Special consideration is given to the subjects of organ donation, autopsy, the question of a woman's right to say Kaddish, mourning practices as they relate to the stillborn, the permissibility of converts to Judaism to mourn their Gentile parents, and the bereavement rights of individuals who by Jewish law are not required to mourn but who nonetheless wish to express their grief in accordance with Jewish tradition.

In addition to exploring the sensitive issues that the contemporary mourner must confront, The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning is remarkable in that it gently leads the mourner through the corridors of Jewish law and teaches the aching heart how to express its pain in love and respect so that it might begin on the road to eventual healing.

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read it before you need it .......2007-07-22

This is a truly encyclopedic guide (at least from the perspective from someone who, like me, knew almost nothing about the subject before reading the book) to Jewish mourning practices. Brief summary: if a parent dies, be prepared to take a week off from everything, and don't shave. Try to avoid most forms of public entertainment for a year. (Whether these are realistic expectations for most readers, I can't say). If another relative dies, the restrictions are less severe.

Lamm also briefly summarizes the Jewish depiction of the afterlife. In his own words: [there is] historic near-unanimity of [Jewish] scholarly opinion on the fundamental belief [in the afterlife but] the practical details of immortality are ambiguous and vague. There is no formal eschatology in Judaism, only a traditional consensus that illuminates the way. . . God revives the righteous dead, while the wicked remain in the dust."

Lamm goes back and forth between justifying the halacha and neutrally describing it; I found his justifications persuasive in some instances, perhaps a bit overly aggressive at other times.

comprehensive orthodox view.......2007-01-16

This book is tremendously informative about every possible question you could have about the Jewish laws and customs about death and mourning. It is well written and it's easy to look up questions you have. It's nicely broken down in chronological order from the end of life until the yearly yahrzeit observance.

It is, however, from the modern orthodox perspective. As a recent mourner, it made me feel guilty that my reform family was not observing all the minute details of mourning that occur. It's strength, tho, is that you know all the details and can observe what you can. And you now know what the ideal might be.

The paradox of course is that one is not likely to purchase or read it until some of the stages of mourning have passed. But it is comforting to read about the stages and their meaning even if they have passed. Plus it leaves you well informed should a death occur in the future, a likelihood for all of us mortals.

Help when needed........2007-01-11

A good resource for what to do for those who have recently lost someone.

Also a good resource for the bereaved for what to do and who to turn to.

It gives you the proper actions to take to respect the one lost and the ones that are bereaved.

It gives the Jewish point of view and an explanation of it and all the things that are done as part of the rituals and procedures involved with a death.

The best guide on the subject I know .......2004-10-13

This is the best guide on ' Jewish Death and Mourning' I know. It is clearly written. It presents the Halachic aspects of the process in a good way. It shows sympathy and understanding. It will answer most if not all of the procedural questions the person has who is in the process of mourning.
It is the standard work , and rightly so.

Moving and thoughtful.......2003-05-09

My father had just died and I was given this book by his synagogue. As I spent the week sitting shivah with my family I read through it. It was comforting, informative and very very helpful. I think it would be helpful not only to Jewish mourners but to anyone who has lost a loved one.

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The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning
Maurice Lamm
Manufacturer: Jonathan David Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
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