Famous People in History II (Famous People in History)

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Kids need heroes..........2003-11-25

I entertain my minivan-bound children with books on tape/CD. The best are the Harry Potter series. There are many other good ones. And this is a good non-fiction title for children.

Kids need heroes, and this tape provides my 5 and 7 year old boys with some impressive ones. The heroes come from the worlds of politics, science, literature, religion... This tape is one of my 7 year old son's favorites. It has a very positive message for him. He gets ideas of what he could be.

Volume 2 (the one I have) tells the stories of some historical figures, emphasizing all the positive and heroic qualities of each: Alexander the Great, Joan of Arc, Leonardo Da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Ludwig van Beethoven, Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie, Mahatma Gandhi, and George Washington.

As an adult accustomed to having his heroes routinely discredited, I find these idealized portraits naive, but kind of refreshing. If you have kids you know that they have a purpose: to introduce you to the world again, and show you its wonder. These portraits of heroes are simplified and abstracted in a way that highlights their abilities. No jaded cynicism here. These scientists, thinkers, statesmen, musicians, were all leaders. My young leader could do worse than to select a role model from one of these larger than life heroes.

Two other notes.
1. The tapes are abridged, while the CDs are not. Buy the CD.
2. Amazon has one description for both volume 1 and 2. Misleading. They contain different people.

Vol 1 - Queen Elizabeth I, Abraham Lincoln, Christopher Columbus, Horatio Nelson, William Shakespeare, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Vol 2 - Alexander the Great, Joan of Arc, Leonardo Da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Ludwig van Beethoven, Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie, Mahatma Gandhi, George Washington (This is the one I am reviewing)

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Famous People in History, Volume II (Audiofy Digital Audiobook Chips)
Nicolas Soames
Manufacturer: Audiofy/Naxos
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Cards
ASIN: 1600837387

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This Audiofy audiobook chip packs a full 2.5 hour reading of "Famous People in History, Volume II" 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)... There is a need for accessible short biographies of key people for younger listeners. Following the success of "Famous People, Volume I," Nicolas Soames presents another varied group of men and women who have changed the course of history. This is the second volume of popular histories of famous people - Alexander the Great, Joan of Arc, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, George Washington, Ludwig van Beethoven, Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie and Mahatma Ghandi.

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Quick easy interesting read
A refreshing perspective
My most treasured book on a wonderful man
tribute to a fine man
This book is not an objective biography of the subject

J.F.K. Jr.
Stephen Spignesi
Manufacturer: Citadel Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Quick easy interesting read.......2004-07-14

I enjoyed the layout of the book. Almost like a compilation of quick factoids. Please don't misconstrue this statement as it being boring and/or technical. It is simply laid out in a way that makes the reading easier. As a fan of biographies, I have mulled over many that linger on and on with out substance. This book is just the opposite. It has plenty of substance and is presented in a way you can read the facts, enjoy them and also recall what you have read. A good job by Mr. Signesi.

I really admired John Junior for his way of handling his place in American culture. This book is a great insight into the man. I don't agree with the comments that it sets him on a pedestal as a god-like figure, quite the opposite for me. I think it painted him in a very humanistic way. Well worth the price and certainly if you were endeared to John F. Kennedy Jr. Again, good job Mr. Signesi.

A refreshing perspective.......1999-12-10

So much information has been released on John Jr. but really only focussed on his "celebrity" side. This book though it touched on the celebrity, really displayed the "regular" side of John. It was well put together, easy to read, and was a fast read. It was such a loss for our nation but it will be nice to have this book as a keepsake for rememberances.

My most treasured book on a wonderful man.......1999-08-28

After much waiting I finally received my copy of this wonderful book. I must admit, it is better than I had expected. I primarily bought this book to keep as a memento of the late JFK Jr. but I was pleasantly surprised by how interesting the book is. It covers JFK Jr's life from a totally different angle-one that is refreshing & different from all the other books and tribute magazines out there. I also liked how it contained not the standard photographs that every other book or magazine has published in the last few weeks. This book reads like a yearbook. It personalizes John unlike any other publication and captures your interest from page one. It is the ultimate memento of a much missed and much loved person.

tribute to a fine man.......1999-07-23

the best book written about the late,great,john kennedy,jr.we will never know now what might have been,but this book stands as a fine record of what was.

This book is not an objective biography of the subject.......1999-07-23

Tragedy aside, this book is sheer puffery. This turns the subject into a god-like idol and provides no objectivity about the trials and tribulations of being the son of two very public figures.

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Religious people WOULD like this book too...

Disappointing tripe

Wonderful

AN EXCELLENT BOOK THAT SHOULD BE A MOVIE

god dies
Towing Jehovah (Harvest Book)
James Morrow
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0156002108

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God is dead, and Anthony Van Horne must tow the corpse to the Arctic (to preserve Him from sharks and decomposition). En route Van Horne must also contend with ecological guilt, a militant girlfriend, sabotage both natural and spiritual, and greedy hucksters of oil, condoms, and doubtful ideas. Winner of a 1995 World Fantasy Award.

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Religious people WOULD like this book too..........2007-06-18

Towing Jehovah (as well as it's two sequels) is a marvelous work. Morrow is fair to all sides, both religious and non-religious. He doesn't hate religion or the idea of God as many think he does. On the contrary, he understands well the role that faith has as a part of the human condition, in both its positive and negative aspects. To the reviewer who warns Christian fundamentalists away from this book, I think Christian fundamentalists (or anyone who takes his religion seriously) would find a lot to like about this book very much. Morrow pokes just as much fun at the rabid anti-religious zealots as he does at religious people, if not more! More than that, he pokes fun at ideologies, all the "isms" in our world that want to blame God for things done out of human will. But he does even this in a respectful way, trying to show where such points of view comes from. At the same time, he shows the strength that faith in God can provide to help us through difficult times in our lives. Contrary to what some of the other reviewers on here, who are obviously nitpicking to look for things to hate about it, this is literally one of the finest, most thought-provoking, most well told novels I've ever read. Morrow is a genius with words, a genius as a storyteller, and I always look forward to another of his books to be published. The only complaint I have about Morrow is that he forces me to wait years before I can finally enjoy a new book -- but that of course that is because he takes the time to do a novel well. A rare commodity these days.

Disappointing tripe.......2007-05-24

My expectations were a bit too high when I bought this book. It looked like an intelligent, tongue-in-cheek, farcical tale, a what-if scenario played out with a sense of humor dosed heavily with irreverence. The what-if part is funny, yes, but Morrow really doesn't display a mastery at his craft to pull any of the rest off. It reads like a conversation you'd have with friends while getting high in the basement.

Stereotypes of people push along a mildly comical plot-line that's dressed up as whacky, irreverent philosophical fodder. The characters are developed only as far as the plot necessitates. And the extent to which they're defined is the farce, each drawn in the big lines of a caricature. One woman is a feminazi who over-intellectualizes everything and writes bad plays about her hatred for the male-dominant religion. Morrow takes the idea of a feminist and turns the dial to eleven. The Catholic priest is so desperate for God that, when he believes his God is lost and people are falling to shame, the priest falls to his knees, screaming for Immanuel Kant to save them. For a time, while reading, I honestly suspected that Morrow was kidding with these badly written people. I was waiting for the other shoe to drop, but it never did. He meant for these characters to be like this, worker bees harboring killer instincts, average people ready to soil themselves, destroy or steal everything around them, throw orgy parties, all because God existed and now he doesn't. I wonder at all the atheists out there who aren't robbing banks and having sex in the streets because they believe there is no God. Intentionally campy? I don't think so, because Morrow clearly expects us to be sympathetic to some of the characters. There really was just nothing funny or intelligent about this book.

If you're looking for a book with literary value, this is not it. If you want something genuinely funny and irreverent, I'd suggest _The Stupidest Angel_ by Christopher Moore. And if I haven't convinced you, then at least do yourself a favor and buy a used copy.

Wonderful.......2007-04-05

Every so often, a book comes along and just blows you away--the book becomes part of your life, something you often think about and go back to. You recommend the book to everyone who will listen, and you envy the people who are themselves reading it for the first time. Finding such a book keeps you looking for the next one that will give you the same thrill. For me, those books include Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury, Ghost Story by Peter Straub, Salem's' Lot by Stephen King, Red Dragon by Thomas Harris, Dune by James Herbert, The Godfather by Mario Puzo, Random Walk by Lawrence Block, and The World According to Garp by John Irving.

The reason I mention this is that I had just such an experience with James Morrow's masterpiece, Towing Jehovah. I was in awe the first time I read it, and have gone back to it a couple of times since.

The plot of this stellar novel can be summed up in one sentence: God dies, falls to Earth, and must be towed to a tomb in the Artic. What is the book about? I'd have to say responsibility, duty, redemption, closed mindedness, and, most importantly, love. I probably missed a lot of what was in there, but you get the picture.

Towing Jehovah tells the story of Anthony Van Horne, former Captain of an oil tanker named the Carpco Valparaiso. Van Horne lives in disgrace due to a costly error in judgment which led to an "Exxon Valdez" type disaster. Van Horne has spent the years since the disaster living a marginal existence. His days are spent wallowing in self-pity; at night he is subject to the torture of horrid, continuous nightmares.

All that changes when Van Horne is accosted by the dying angel Raphael Azarias, who tells him he must command the refurbished Carpco Valparaiso on its most important mission: towing the two mile long corpse of the Supreme Being to a tomb that his angels have constructed.

After overcoming his initial skepticism, Van Horne accepts the task. The rest of the novel describes the ship's onerous trek to the Arctic tomb. Besides relating the details of Van Horne's physical and spiritual journey, Morrow also finds the time to skewer rabid feminists, ignorant chauvinists, oil companies, the Catholic Church, World War II buffs, junk food, humanism, rationalism, and Cecil B. DeMille. Rest assured, there is something in here to offend everyone.

This is a wonderful novel, featuring Morrow at his cynical best. Read it for its uplifting message, biting satire and fearless pursuit of ideas, but most of all, read it because it's just so damn good.

AN EXCELLENT BOOK THAT SHOULD BE A MOVIE.......2006-12-12

TOWING JEHOVAH is a brilliant story idea written in a thoroughly enjoyable manner. Though the book is not written to be humorous, the plot is humorous even if one gives it only a little bit of thought. I enjoyed it immensely because I'm a former Jehovah's Witness, HOWEVER this book is NOT addressed to Jehovah's Witnesses. TOWING JEHOVAH has a wide appeal, so don't be misled by the title.

god dies.......2006-09-08

Towing Jehovah is a very clever an unusual book, well written on an array of topics. God the cosmic being dies at zero longitude/latitude, floating in the Atlantic, a 2 mile behemoth. Anthony Van Horne is charged with towing the body to the Antarctic for the Vatican - cryonics on a grand scale (never mind global warming.) Van Horne's boat is a giant oil supertanker that was in a catastrophic Exxon Valdez type accident years prior. The Angel Gabriel puts Van Horne in charge of towing god as a redemptive act for the oil spill he inadvertently caused.

The book covers sailing, the physics of towing a giant corpse, cryonics, cannibalism, the lost city of Atlantis, theology and atheism, etc., etc. A wide range of topics on a very engaging level. The supertanker runs into a multitude of jams from the start, difficult Vatican leadership, women's liberation (god is male in this case), atheists, mutiny, decomposition, sharks, you name it.

I really enjoyed this book and would recommended it for theist and atheist alike

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Not on Sawyer's "A" list!
Award-caliber / first-rate / great book
Good mix
Good mix
An Enjoyable but Uneven Space Opera

Starplex
Robert J. Sawyer
Manufacturer: Ace Books
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Binding: Paperback

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Not on Sawyer's "A" list!.......2004-11-03

I have nothing but praise for Sawyer and I find him one of the best Science Fiction writers ever! However, this book was a major letdown, lacking the interesting characters and intriguing plots of some of his other books. Also, in other books, Sawyer does a far superior job explaining complex science. In this book he makes the scientific explanations difficult to follow unless you happen to be Stephen Hawking.

The plot itself reminds me of a long episode of Star Trek TNG. You have the starship searching the galaxy with both human and alien crewmen united by a planet Commonwealth (did you say Federation?). They ultimately must save the galaxy by the book's end.

Award-caliber / first-rate / great book.......2003-12-30

Robert J. Sawyer won the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel of the Year for HOMINIDS. That win was well-deserved but I got to wondering how far back in his career he was writing award-caliber books before he snared the "Big One." The answer is: at least THIS far back. STARPLEX was the only 1996 novel to be both a best-novel Hugo Award finalsit and best-novel Nebula Award finalist (and it won Canada's Aurora Award and the Compuserve HOmer Award). Sawyer's aliens are every bit as good as those of James White, Larry Niven, Hal Clement and Robert Forward, and his people are infinitely more complex and believable than any written by those writers. This book tackles just about every problem in astrophysics ... and solves them all. No wonder its on numerous university astronomy reading lists, and endorsed by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. A terrific book well worth tracking down.

Good mix.......2002-08-22

This the second book by Sawyer I have read and I enjoyed both. The first was 'Calculating God'. Starplex was mostly hard SF but with some interesting philosophical ideas. Although Starplex seems like basic hard SF, even leaning towards space opera on the surface, it's also develops some big ideas about the universe and origin of life.

Good mix.......2002-07-20

An Enjoyable but Uneven Space Opera.......2002-05-15

Sawyer's foray into space opera and space adventure is a fun book to read, but lacks the depth of (human) characterization and philosophical thought that are the strengths of his later works. The book's strengths include
1. the Ib Race -- a brilliant construct
2. the dark matter entities
3. the enigmatic glass man
4. the tightly woven plot threads
5. an interesting twist on the gateway concept

The book's weaknesses include
1. a weak protagonist
2. too many "Star Trek"-like devices (tractor beams, force fields)
3. uneven treatment of the human-Walhal (the pig creatures) dynamics.

Unlike many of the (harsh) negative critics below, I found the book quite enjoyable, even if there is some hand-waving here and there. It's not like that hasn't been done before in SF. And just to set the matter straight, Sawyer does NOT imply that laser beams are visible (he clearly states that the computer animated the laser fire in a holographic display) and he does not say that a spaceship swerves to avoid direct laser fire; what he does say is that a spaceship maneuvers to avoid another, spinning spaceship which happens to be firing a laser.

The book is enjoyable science fiction. The key word in this phrase is fiction.

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TOWING JEHOVAH

Manufacturer: The Easton Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: B000H45V1C

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Towing Jehovah
James Morrow
Manufacturer: Harcourt
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJOA0S

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Towing Jehovah
James Morrow
Manufacturer: RH Canada UK Dist
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OH56LW

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Towing Jehovah Signed First Edition By James Morrow

Manufacturer: The Easton Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: B000GERCLU

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Dark Red Leather Bound Hardcover Signed by author James Morrow First edition Gold trimmed pages Great Quality they do not make them like this anymore

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Poor........2006-12-28

Not a great book by any means. The following has spoilers - read at your own risk.

Impetus of War is filled with so many contrived nuanaces that the book pales in comparison to Pardoe's other works. Not even close in quality to Double Blind (Pardoe) or Highlander Gambit (Pardoe). If you are looking for logical planning or probable results from desperate gambles, this book is not for you.

The Northwind Highlanders brigade-size merc unit, specifically Stirling's Fusiliers Regiment, is hired to take a dangerous mission to attack a Clan Smoke Jaguar staging base at Wayside V. As noted by other reviewers, the mission starts out with a near-disaster that robs the Highlanders of their ride home, most of their unit, and almost any chance of victory. The Clan Smoke Jaguar forces, conversely, are well-equipped and field an entire Galaxy of troops (essentially, a Clan-equivalent "demi-brigade") plus a Warship and its escorts. The Highlanders have zero chance, but Jaffray comes into it with a convoluted plan that involved sneaking off the planet, traveling lightyears away to get the Nova Cats to attack and by playing one Clan off another, achieve victory. Meanwhile, the rest of the Highlanders would fight a retreating action waiting for Jaffray's plan to work. The time chronology of the story falls apart as Jaffray's strike unit manages to travel distances that would mean the Fusiliers are having to hold on for months, not weeks.

One excellent portion however, is the development of the Craig/Jaffray feud. Both characters grow around this and it adds just a little of the angst every story like this needs. Had it been more explored, the story would have been greater served. It definitely shows Pardoe has excellent caliber when he needs it and certainly manages to hold this book back from a waste of time.

The Smoke Jaguar forces are once again shown as totally insane and inept (how did they ever get anywhere acting like this?) - nothing new for the entirety of the Clan era books. Essentially, the Jaguars become just cannon-fodder yet remain touted as great warriors until the end, regardless of having numerical and technological superiority and shows that by this point, the general company line was the Jaguars were going to be the next "Capellan Confederation baddies." The entire story follows the Jaguars' continual losses to the smaller desperate Highlanders and eventually, the Jaguars lose entirely to the Nova Cats. Again, if the Jaguars were this easy to defeat why are they continually mentioned as the serious enemy of the entire Sphere? It makes no sense and the answer is not explored in this book aside from using the Jaguars as yet another faceless foe. A poor book.

Great, but again?.......2000-03-21

Ok. this story is well written and exciting but the plot is a hundred novels old! Let's start: first, they plan on attacking a clan world that should be garrisoned only by a PGC, but find out ,too late of course, that they have a front line unit on the planet, which also happened to Prince Davion in Lethal heritage and to the Black Thorns in DRT. Then they lose their ability to take off from the planet,what has happened to almost all units, mercenary and regular alike, everytime an assault is planed on the Battletech universe, then, like all the other books, one of the characters comes up with an uncanny way of saving the day. I'm not saying that the book is bad, just that the story is not as inventive as it may appear.

Excellent Book.......2000-01-02

This book was my first book in the Battletech series and it got me hooked. The descriptions of actual battles are excellent. Blaine Lee Pardoe should definetly bring back the Northwind Highlanders in his next Battletech book. From what I gather this shows one of the few examples where the Inner Sphere works together instead of having internal strife. I also like the plan Jaffery comes up with; it shows imagination. I will definetly get all the books.

Simply great.......1999-12-29

Ever wander what a real clash between two clans that really hate each other is? You will have a great taste when Smoke Jaguars and Nova Cats just ignore one of the great mercenary units of the Inner Sphere (Highlanders) to fight to the death. This book make you comprehend what fighting the clans in their own land is like: you have to use every trick in the book and in your brain, expend every breath of your men and women (until they die, of course), not to win, just to stay alive to maintain hope... although, against the clans, either you win or you die.

Greatest BattleTech ever!!.......1999-06-04

This book is great! The war started at the beginning and ends at the end.It is just perfect!

Rebellion Against Victorianism: The Impetus for Cultural Change in 1920s America

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Rebellion Against Victorianism: The Impetus for Cultural Change in 1920s America
Stanley Coben
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0195045939

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The 1920s in America was a decade of rebellion, reform, and reaction as traditional Victorian values came under attack from all sides. Black leaders like W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey, feminists like Alice Paul, politicians like Robert La Follette, and social scientists like Franz Boas and
Margaret Mead all assaulted fundamental inequalities inherited from the nineteenth century. A host of scientific breakthroughs eroded the foundations of the older world view, and cultural innovations like jazz challenged the nineteenth-century morality of most middle class Americans and also
provoked spirited defenses of tradition by extremists like the Ku Klux Klan.
In this wide-ranging and vividly written book, Stanley Coben introduces a new hypothesis about the reasons for the tumultuous cultural changes during the 1920s. He begins with the Victorian concept of "character," the word which assured Americans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries that men were men, women were wives and mothers, and homes were sanctuaries. (Harriet Beecher Stowe and her sister Catherine wrote that "She who is the mother and housekeeper in a large family is the sovereign of an empire.") Coben doesn't spare us the seamy underside of the Victorian
ideal either, such as the racism revealed by the Oxford professor who declared to an approving American audience in 1882 that "the best remedy for whatever is amiss in America would be if every Irishman should kill a negro and be hanged for it." Nor does he hesitate to describe the failures of
those who rebelled against tradition, like the early supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment, or the farmer-labor-progressive presidential coalition of 1924. Rebellion Against Victorianism is particularly enlightening on cultural matters, showing how artforms of the '20s--like jazz or the novels of
Ernest Hemingway and Sinclair Lewis--were part of the rebellion. The book includes a fascinating chapter-length discussion of the Ku Klux Klan which reveals that the Klan in the 1920s was in no way a Southern, fringe group--in fact, the K.K.K. had more members in Connecticut than in Mississippi.
The Klan's defense of Victorian "character" spoke to millions of Americans who found themselves shaken up by the cultural revolution going on around them.
In illuminating the events and personalities of this water-shed decade, Coben draws with equal confidence from the realms of culture and politics, science and society. His book brings an alternative perspective to the impetus for change in American life, demonstrating that many of the
contradictions which inspired the rebellion against Victorianism still exist today. The results are sometimes startling, but always intriguing.

Respec': New Labour's 'Respect' campaign is about filling the gap created by its withdrawal from the democratic socialist impetus of the post-war years.: An article from: Arena Magazine

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Respec': New Labour's 'Respect' campaign is about filling the gap created by its withdrawal from the democratic socialist impetus of the post-war years.: An article from: Arena Magazine
Guy Rundle
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This digital document is an article from Arena Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1756 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: Respec': New Labour's 'Respect' campaign is about filling the gap created by its withdrawal from the democratic socialist impetus of the post-war years.
Author: Guy Rundle
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Battletech - 8 Random Titles (Decision at Thunder Rift, 44-Threads of Ambition, 3-Falcon Rising: Twilight of the Clans VIII, 34-Grave Covenant: Twilight of the Clans 2, 30-Impetus of War. 46-Dagger Point, 37-Warrior en Garde, 45-Killing Fields: Book II of the Capellan Solution)

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Battletech - 8 Random Titles (Decision at Thunder Rift, 44-Threads of Ambition, 3-Falcon Rising: Twilight of the Clans VIII, 34-Grave Covenant: Twilight of the Clans 2, 30-Impetus of War. 46-Dagger Point, 37-Warrior en Garde, 45-Killing Fields: Book II of the Capellan Solution)
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Battletech Impetus Of War
Blaine Lee Pardoe
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Efforts against Nazi war criminals in U.S. gain new impetus

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Efforts against Nazi war criminals in U.S. gain new impetus
David Geller
Manufacturer: American Jewish Committee, Institute of Human Relations
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A wonderful book for spiritual uplifting

life affirmation

The key to meditation

God Makes the Rivers to Flow: Selections from the Sacred Literature of the World Chosen for Daily Meditation
Eknath Easwaran
Manufacturer: Nilgiri Press
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Inspirational selections from the sacred literature of the world Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Native American.

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A wonderful book for spiritual uplifting.......2001-05-22

Since I believe in the existance of one God, I like this book a lot, because Sri. Eswaran does not focus on meditating on a particular belief or religion. This book shows that no matter which spiritual journey (path) you take, you end up in one place. The passages in this book are very uplifting.

life affirmation.......2001-05-18

eknath easwaran's books are all great .this one is particularly usefull for meditative purposes .in a world where flashy egotism seems so often to be rewarded-we can swim upstream.for a half hour every day we can repeat the beatitudes instead of lusting false boobs . after all we all know right from wrong .we are all that we see according to the gita . we have choices to make . as saint francis says in this book -it is in giving that we receive . let's let easwaran show us how to evolve by putting others first . let all the great sages in this book show us how to quit "selfing".

The key to meditation.......1999-01-25

Many forms of meditation exist. I chose Easwaran's because it's the most pragmatic. His thesis is that what one thinks upon, that he or she shall become. By meditating on a sacred passage from literature, then, the meditator transforms him- or herself into a person of high ideals. There are many other benefits to this kind of meditation--the mind slows down, and doesn't get angry or depressed as often; better concentration. God Makes The Rivers To Flow provides many passages, chosen by Sri. Easwaran, to memorize and use in meditation. It also provides a brief yet thorough explanation of Eknath's meditation style. (For a more detailed description, his book Meditation is highly recommended.) But don't take my (or anyone else's) word for it--if you want to aspire toward a more spiritual life, or if you just want to gain better control over your choices and circumstances, try this book and watch positive changes begin occurring almost immediately.

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