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thought-provoking, horrifying, and inspiring, and the buyer will never regret the money spent on it. This book will stay with the reader for a long time to come.
The book covers the sites of disaster, assassination, murder and accident all across America, including nearly every site and shrine in Texas. We review it not just for it's interesting content, but its coverage of a most unusual type of geography. It's a thought-provoking book at how, why and in what manner we deal with the sites of violence (and tragedy).
The individual stories of the incidents are told completely, but without distracting from the book's theme.
It's a unique book and should remain so for some time. Foote's thoroughness guarantees that.
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This book talks about the specific, sexualized emotions you experience while growing up in a dysfunctional home that don't get articulated because it's too squeamish to talk about them. And yet, it does so in a very safe and comforting manner. It's like getting the hug and shoulder to lean on that you never got growing up.
Facing the truth of being emotionally used by one's parents is a sobering experience -- but oh what a relief to have these feelings explained and validated. I feel extraordinarily relieved to have read this book -- it gives me new hope for my present, my future and my marriage.
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I've tried many prayer resources, but I find Kenneth Boa's the best for leading me to the mind of God.
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Pro
. Great amount of financial knowledge covered (asset allocation, risk analysis, etc)
. Easy to understand (practical examples present)
. Do not need to spend too much time on it, everything was concisely written (only 250+ pages)
. CHEAP comparing to other financial books
Con,
. Though ideas were clearly crossed inside the book, but some parts are poorly written.(Not a big deal, but still)
Conclusion: a MUST BUY for those entry level or intermediate level investors who want to learn modern portfolio theories in a relative short period of time.
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Even though I really was pleased to read a book of poetry filled with truthful emotional experiences I was frustrated by the eccentric words that he used. I guess a true lover of the language might get carried away and use words I don't know creating a learning opportunity for me I found it annoying.
Despite the occasional mysterious word. Kenneth Rosen talks to your soul. He talks about the mystery of existence in it there's pain, metamorphisis or perception, confusion and pleasure. In, "The Internationale Of Dog," I was pleased to see the correlation between the dogs imaged emotional reality and our emotional reality. Because we do pray to a God, we ask for signs, we question who this God is, is he a mean God, "Why can't we just be punished and then brought to that magical and safe place?" home.
For readers looking to get out of the ordinary, I definitely recommend it. It is an inspiring and touching read.
Origins refuses to ignore the cruel and the vicious in human history at the same time that it celebrates the basics--family, food, sex, death--with a whimsy that only seems cynical and a sense of humor worthy of a Whitmanesque yawp.
The third poem in the book really touched my heart, without a question the psychological trauma and embarassament of a mother lying to a child and what would happen if 60 years later they had met, wow.
And then later in the collection he talks about the confusion of romance, the shock of kissing and the sense of not feeling and then the primal nakedness that changes everything.
The read is painful, but someone makes me feel better, I am not alone, I am not the only one.
And the
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Already printed in 10 languages and two editions since its debut in January of 1995, this book is essential reading for anyone feeling stuck in a job, a club, an organization, a church or any systematized group. (It's also a valuable guide for people who prefer the security of being stuck and feel pommeled by the wild beating of feathers around them.)
But, get the second edition, so you can take advantage of the 15 pages of identifiers, tools and processes that will take you from figuring out where you are to figuring out how to get where you want to go.
If you ARE a corporation or lodge or church or school, read the SECOND EDITION only if you're willing to be "dislodged" as appropriate!
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In 320 pages you are blessed by the author's ability to not only give you the best 100, but also show you why they are the best. The book is broken down in the 75 best players and the 25 best pitchers and for the first time someone is right on track.
Using statistics rather than popularity, Shouler shows how Babe Ruth really is the best of all time. I read this book in just over two hours and have re-read it several times since. A fascinating piece of work and one of the most complete books I have ever read.
Greats like Ruth, Williams, Gehrig, Mays, Schmidt, Hornsby, Foxx, Cobb, Brett, Carlton and 90 others are covered in this certain collector items for every baseball or sports fans. This may be the one book all others are measured by - well done!
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REAL LIFE NOTES deals with the five basic terrors ahead of every student who is finally graduating from the American education system - Career, Perspective, Relationships, Parents & Yourself.
Kenneth Jedding has written one of those lively self-help books that doesn't have a pompous opinion in it, although it has a slew of quotes from world renown writers & thinkers, like Winston Churchill, Lin Yutang, Aldous Huxley, Helen Keller, Oprah Winfrey.
A perennially perfect gift for everyone graduating into real life.
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This is my second read. Not my usual practice.
My one major disappointment is the exclusion from this paperback edition of a section about Freeman Dyson's work on a "safe" nuclear reactor. I found this section particularly interesting because of the specific subject and because of the learning and work principles illustrated. This was an inappropriate job of editing.
Read, enjoy and learn about learning and living and relating in our complex and conflicting world.
The father and son are celebrated physicist (and author in his own right) Freeman Dyson and kayaker, tree-dweller, solo marine traveller (and also an author) George Dyson. In the wild, anarchic 1970s, author Kenneth Brower (who, it turns out, is also a friend of George's) takes us along with George and Freeman as they explore and plan explorations. His book is engrossing and one feels as though one has actually spent time with these fascinating, sometimes incredibly eccentric and singular men.
Freeman Dyson, an influential theoretical physicist, spent a great deal of time in the optimistic 1950s and 1960s preparing to push the New Frontier outward on nuclear explosion-powered spacecraft. This work, Project Orion, was supported and funded by NASA and the US Air Force until the atmospheric nuclear test ban, competition for funding from Project Apollo and the Vietnam War finally killed the project's funding leaving him and fellow physicist Ted Taylor to develop the concept further.
Together, the two men pushed the original project's concepts to their ultimate limits, and Project Orion grew to become spacecraft the size of Chicago leaving for nearby stars - so far, however, only in the minds of Dyson, Taylor, and those of us who have become enraptured by the concept of Orion.
Later, son George Dyson ventures up and down the Pacific Coast from California northwards before finally settling (sort of) in the area between Vancouver and the glaciers of Alaska, sometimes living in a treehouse at the top of a tall and spindly fir, sometimes setting off from southern British Columbia up the Queen Charlotte Strait, meeting people on the islands of the strait in voyages oddly reminiscent of Antoine du Saint-Exupery's Le Petit Prince. Brower narrates these journeys with unobtrusive wryness, allowing the reader to chuckle at the interplay between author and subject as they paddle to and for between Alaska and Canada.
Buy this book. Read it. Few other books reward their readers as richly as the Starship and the Canoe.
Like anything truly sublime, the unspoken lesson enlivens this book . If you really share what you love with students, guide them instead of showing them, ask instead of telling, and treat their products with the respect you'd give a visiting artist, they will produce art as amazing as Mr. Koch's students did.
Forget teaching poetry to children- teach poetry instead. Take the concept and apply it to all creative acts. Teach art from great and challenging art. Teach music from powerful, sophisticated music. They can not only take it, they'll take it and keep it.