This is one of the most disturbing books I've read in a long time.

Some of the essays are chilling, and all are informative, well-written and compelling. There is little here in which one can take comfort.

A must-read for whites and open-minded blacks as well.

This was great book. The chapters always kept my attention. It provides great insight into a lot of different areas. This book seems to be comprised of logic and clear thinking.

On December 29, 1992 one of the most brutal racially motivated killings since the era of lynching occurred in South Carolina. The victim was Melissa McLauchlin, a young woman who was kidnapped, raped, violently tortured and then dumped on a highway in an effort to avenge "400 years of oppression".

I heard about the crime quite by accident while passing through the area at just the right time. For years I thought that no one else would remember this woman's death as it was blatantly ignored by the national media. It was quite a surprise to open this book and find an entire chapter largely devoted to the circumstances surrounding the killing.

This alone would justify reading the book, which also focuses on other "politically incorrect" subject matter relating to race. The editors do a commendable job of presenting challenges to the moral character and direction of the modern civil rights movement while disallowing racist implications and language.

When my husband started loosing a ton of weight we knew something was wrong. He wouldn't go to the doctor and finally I made him go. It turned out he had an overactive thyroid and this problem is extremely common.

This clear, concise illustrated guide will give you expert advice and explains what the thyroid does, what the symptoms are, what an overactive or underactive thyroid is and what the types of treatment are. There are also case studies, charts and checklists. The glossary of medical terms and useful Web site addresses makes this practical as well.

Each thyroid disorder is described in detail. Since doctors are often too busy to explain the conditions in detail, you will want to read about the condition in detail. After all, it is your body we are talking about and you want to know all you can.

My husband was lucky and underwent the radioactive iodine treatment. Just enough of his thyroid survived that he doesn't have to take any medication. The problem with this treatment is that you can develop hypothyroidism and then you have to take levothyroxine daily.

Thyroid cancer is rare, but they do include a chapter which talks about how it is diagnosed and treated. A question and answer section is a thoughtful addition. There is also a map which shows the regions of the world in which iodine-deficiency goiter is a common disorder.

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I highly recommend this book to anyone who has thyroid problems themselves or in their family. I have been going to doctors for 19 years now after a total thyroidectomy because of thyroid cancer. I was sent home from hospital with little information and told to take tablets for the rest of my life. I have been having regular checkups but have always wanted to know why did it happen. This book told me more than any doctor has in all those years. I found myself saying "Why wasn't this book around when I was going through it all?" After reading this book I now know I need to see a specialist and my children also need to be checked. This book gives you all the information you will need to be well informed about thyroid problems.

Documentation galore. While the book is a bit outdated, the material still holds much truth with respect to current politics. Good luck trying to find a copy, this has been out of print for some time. According to Powell, this supposed non-profit think tank and its numerous spinoff's have established themselves in the confines of Washington as a purely research/academic oriented organization with the intent to change public policy for the better. Unfortunately, he finds many of their founders and directors along with published literature and recorded discussion groups to have an opposite appeal and hidden agenda. Admittedly, the book is leftist centered and this reviewer is not going to deny that the right is not involved in their own misdeeds, but after investigating much of the bibliography I found that the documentation speaks for itself and gives a wonderful insight into the labyrinth of power politics. Be frightened, be very frightened, this is not something many are willing to admit much less accept, especially with so many still involved. Research what you have trouble swallowing, you just might come away a disheartened believer.

this book is so cool cus its true and it tells the truth about the government. /ps. dont let the government skrew you over like thay did to dennis r.trist, hes a realy cool guy.

This is an amazing book!! Thank you, Mr. Dubal. This book is permanently on the table next to my favorite easy chair. Whenever I have a few minutes between this or that, I pick up Remembering Horowitz and dip into a different part. I must have read the entire book at least once and many parts several times already, but I will go back again and again and again.

This book is a MUST BUY for anyone who has ever looked at a piano. I have taught piano for twenty years and played it for 35 years. And this book not only talks about Maestro Horowitz, but, in doing so, discusses the essence of the many facets of piano and music in general. Ultimately, the profound, beautiful, and insightful essays touch on all aspects of life and spirit, just as all great performances do.

Notable are Seymour Bernstein's essay, for personal recollection and an essay on emulation and inspiration; Gary Graffman's memoir that is funny and urbane, in the style of his wonderful I SHOULD BE PRACTICING, his own memoir; and as a defense of Horowitz's showy side, Roger Shields, who finishes by saying,"The study of civilization reveals the mysteries of aspiration, the merging of individual passion with a chaste reverence for tradition and the cyclical unfolding of our achievements. Our time will run its course, and one day another horowitz will be possible." Bravo!

I cannot recommend this book strongly enough. Buy this book and you will not only get a superlative compilation of essays from many cultural perspectives and top-notch writing styles (yes, musicians can write!) but also a deep, loving, discussion of what piano playing means to the soul. It is at is best an exploration of the mystery of what it means to make great, otherworldly music, and what it means to play music in this world. It never pretends to explain this mystery, these artists are too wise for that, but it sheds light for audiences and musicians alike to see more clearly the divine nature of genius.

Bravissimo!!

-Robert Murray Diefendorf, author of Release the Butterfly

This is an amazing book!! Thank you, Mr. Dubal. This book is permanently on the table next to my favorite easy chair. Whenever I have a few minutes between this or that, I pick up Remembering Horowitz and dip into a different part. I must have read the entire book at least once and many parts several times already, but i will go back again and again and again.

This book is a must BUY for anyone who has ever looked at a piano. I ahve taught piano for twenty years and played it for 35 years. It is a huge part of my life. And this book not only talks about Maestro Horowitz, but, in doing so, discusses the essence of the many facets of piano and music in general. Ultimately, the profound, beautiful, and insightful essays touch on all aspects of life and spirit, just as all great performances do.

Notable are Seymour Bernstein's essay, for personal recollection and an essay on emulation and inspiration; Gary Graffman's memoir that is funny and urbane, in the style of his wonderful I SHOULD BE PRACTICING, his own memoir; and as a defense of Horowitz's showy side, Roger Shields, who finishes by saying,"The study of civilization reveals the mysteries of aspiration, the merging of individual passion with a chaste reverence for tradition and the cyclical unfolding of our achievements. Our time will run its course, and one day another horowitz will be possible." Bravo!

I cannot recommend this book strongly enough. Buy this book and you will not only get a superlative compilation of essays from many cultural perspectives and top notch writing styles (yes, musicians can write!) but also a deep, loving, discussion of what piano playing means to the soul. It is at is best an exploration of the mystery of what it means to make great, otherworldy music, and what it means to play music in this world. It never pretends to explain this mystery, these artists are too wise for that, but it sheds light for audiences and musicians alike to see more clearly the divine nature of genius.

Bravissimo!!
-Robert Murray Diefendorf, author of Release the Butterfly

This book(I prefer to call it a pamphlet)gave me the best overview on the subject and left out all the technical jargon. It was well organized, precise, and didn't pull any punches. Its problem-solution orientation proved useful and refreshing; instead of just blowing one off with a typical "It effects each person differently" approach, it discusses what commonalities the disease has. It has a useful self-help section and easy to read charts and diagrams. The concise, plain talking pamphlet gave me a clear picture with a sense of empowerment that comes with knowledge (and all within an hours reading!).

The biggest obstacle to spreading the Conservative message of more freedom and less government is the lack of effective communicators. If Conservatives continue to blame media bias, liberal demagoguery, etc., they will only become more frustrated. The key is to become proficient and persuasive in communicating the Conservative message. Dr. Luntz's booklet is a good start for getting Conservatives on that path.

The author published this book in 1965 and revised it in 1971. The edition which I just completed reading was the former. The author writes with clear and graceful English and shows extraordinary good sense and perception with a wide variety of immense and credible documentation. This is not the greatest left critique of American cold war foreign policy ever written but there are streches where it very much seems that it is.

The author shows very clearly the origins of the Cold war. It had always been the announced intention of the Western powers to destroy the Soviet Union. With the United States aquring virtually unchallenged and unprecedented world power after World War II it viewed the Soviets as its primary rival. The Soviet Union was occupying Eastern Europe through which it had been invaded three times in the preceeding decades, the latest of course being the immensely barbaric Nazi occupation. The Soviets hoped to neutralise Germany's military capacity and hoped to acquire immense reparations to help themselves rebuild. American loans of course, came with alot of strings attached, especially with regard to economic policies. The Americans refrained from discussing any sort of mutual withdrawl from occupied territories with the Soviets. They rebuffed Soviet efforts at mutual disarmament (or accepted then rebuffed as in 1955) prefering to have "Open skies" inspections whereby the U.S. could fly its U-2's over Russian territory unimpeded as it kept producing more sophisticated and lethal nuclear weapons. As the Soviets reduced their military arsenal and manpower the Americans increased theirs, helping to fuel the arms race. The theory was articulated George Kennan "Mr. X": the Soviet Union is incapable of negotiating with (which is to say succumbing to each and every U.S. demand), therefore it must be "contained" i.e. in large part meaning effecting its gradual weakening and hopeful destruction. In reality U.S. policies and actions (one example being announcing the Truman doctrine while the Western foreign ministers were meeting with Molotov in Moscow) tended to strengthen the most reactionary elements in the Soviet Union and its satellites and delay and weaken any movements towards liberalization; the Stalinization of Eastern Europe began in the months after the Truman doctrine was announced. This was recognized by a few elite intellectuals and planners like Walter Lipmann and later George Kennan himself and "containment," would eventually be moderated somewhat later due to changing conditions of U.S. power vis a vis the Soviets.

The author also engages in extensive and important though not very profound discussion about the true intentions about U.S. fulminations about communist totalitarianism. The U.S., of course, used alleged Soviet expansionism as an excuse to block revolutions away from the misery of the vast majority of the populations of the third world, away from the right wing status quo. The British and then the Americans reinstalled Nazi collaborators in Greece to beat back the popular communist party whose rebellion Stalin was trying to put to rest as Milovan Djilas later revealed. In Italy it massively intervened to block the coming to power through democratic elections of the communist party and declared that any nation which voted communists into power would be ineligible for U.S. economic aid. In Korea, from the moment it occupied it, it disbanded the communist dominated anti-Japanese resistance governing councils and installed a very brutal and corrupt dictatorship making the Korean war inevitable. In 1958 it occupied Lebanon in order to block a popular revolution there and contain the possible threat of the example of the 1958 revolution in Iraq. In Guatemala he cites statistics from the Chase National Bank that that country was experiences unprecedented economic successs both in terms of its history and in relation to the rest of Latin America before the 1954 U.S. engineered counterrevolution. He quotes President Eisenhower in his memoirs as saying that Ho Chi Minh was the most popular leader in Indochina before the U.S. installed a very brutal dictatorship in South Vietnam and blocked the 1956 nationwide elections as called for in the Geneva accords. He quotes president Kennedy as saying that Cuba under Batista was the ultimate in neocolonial degradation for the vast majority of the Cuban people and he provides statistics to back up this point (page 203--I think of this when contemplating a recent statement by the author, who of course has become an extremely violent and wealthy reactionary, in one of his books to the effect that Cuba "enjoyed" a high per capita income prior to 1959). He points out that the extreme U.S. hostility to the change away from the right wing status quo in Cuba forced Castro into the arms of the Soviet Union. On page 229 in a footnote he provides citations from a Council on Foreign Relations report about the extremely barbarous conditions lived under the U.S. backed Somoza dictatorship. He provides a particularly superb account of Kennedy's Alliance for Progress and points out the contradiction between the program's goal of reducing poverty, increasing health, education, economic growth, etc. with U.S. laws designed to severely punish any nation which sought to restrict the rights of corporations to plunder their countries.

I seldom rate a book with five stars, but I feel this one deserves it.

I am a budding entrepreneur who is new to marketing, but after reading Mr. Horowitz's book, I believe I can get the word out about my product, creating "the buzz" that will help make my business successful.

"Marketing without Megabucks" instills this confidence by providing copious, detailed examples and methods that, I believe, leave little room for error. For instance, in the direct-mail sections, Mr. Horowitz not only gives careful advice about writing and designing the marketing piece--complete with a multi-page, real- world example--and whom to mail it to, he also explains how to address the envelopes (all caps), how to seal stacks of them efficiently, and which post offices to take them to for quickest delivery.

He covers a plethora of marketing techniques in this way. The book begins by explaining the importance of honing the focus of marketing messages and the business image, discusses picking out an effective name, then explains how to generate free publicity. It moves on to discuss fliers, posters, signs, business cards, magazine and newspaper ads, television and radio spots, and so on. It even takes on advanced methods, such as using networking and customer service as marketing tools to build new and repeat business. Furthermore, Mr. Horowitz delivers examples of how these techniques can be used for a variety of applications--from selling goods and services to waging political campaigns to non-profit fundraising.

Even though the book is thorough, it is not dull. Mr. Horowitz's writing is lively, friendly, and encouraging. I found myself reading it with interest, chapter after chapter, which sharply contrasts with my experience with a textbook I started to read on the subject. Rather than give me rigormortis, Mr. Horowitz has fired me up.

In addition to all this, "Marketing without Megabucks" is a tightwad's treasure house. Did you know you can get sharply reduced rates on newspaper and magazine ads? This is just one tip the author tells you how to take advantage of; for every marketing technique, he offers money-saving ideas, especially emphasizing the value of creating free publicity and carefully targeting and designing marketing for maximum cost-effectiveness. Considering that half of profit is saving, this information is nearly priceless.

I hope this review helps you decide whether or not to buy the book, and I wish you the best in your endeavors. May "the buzz" be with you!

This is on the whole an excellent book; the only thing I disagree with is his constant emphasis on appealing to blacks. Given what Horowitz himself has exposed as the moral and cultural breakdown so endemic to that community as well as its endless huckstering about largely non-existent "racism", it would be utterly fruitless for conservatives to attempt to appeal to that group. Instead, electoral strength will result by trying to appeal to the justified resentment felt by the overwhelming majority of the rest of the population (including Hispanics and especially Asians) towards unreasonable black behavior and incessent demands (i.e racial shakedowns and guilt trips). Still he has very much touched a nerve.

"Unlike traditional liberals, even those who have sometimes embraced its excesses, the Left is permanently at war with America - day in and day out, year in and year out, on every front and every issue, no matter how moderately it disguises its aims, nor how modestly it announces its objectives."

The left, in essence, aims to destroy western civilisation in the belief that a utopia can then be created. It may succeed in destroying the west but a utopia will not be created afterwards. In reality the result will be something much worse.

The most important insight of this excellent book is is in identifying this central motive of the left. The right in my view has always been baffled by the left because the left has always concealed the radicalism of its motives (ideological zeal must always be concealed because it sounds absurd if stated plainly and openly) and this ignorance has been a huge weakness. This book should hopefully help to galvanise the right into taking their opponents more seriously.

Horowitz explains how the left is able to disguise its radicalism in moderate clothing, its use of the "myth of oppression," and offers advice to conservatives in political battles (e.g. attack from the high ground).

He explains how the right has been creamed in the culture wars and usually refuses to even fight them at all.

But in some ways this book does not go far enough. The author does not seem to draw the logical inference from the effectiveness of the culture war being waged by the left - that culture is more important then politics. In other words, political systems rest on the cultures that created them.

And if culture war can be used to subvert democracy, there are really 2 ways of fighting back. The first is to wage culture war, and the second is to strengthen and immunise the political system against subversion. The left is a minority movement and can be more effectively resisted by a stronger democracy. Direct democracy will destroy the left. In my view this would be a much more efective way of countering the pernicious influence of the left on western societies.

If all conservatives (and maybe a few open minded left wingers) read this book, the world could be a lot happier and a lot better place than it is today. If only.

This little book says it all. No wonder it is hard to find. The PC Gestapo would like to burn every copy. Buy it, read it, send a copy to every respresentative you have in government. This is essential reading, the Clift's Notes of the Horowitz collection.

The idea of slave reparations has been met with thunderous support from many influential African-American politicians and community leaders, as well as a fair share of guilt ridden white liberals who desperately want to demonstrate their personal compassion and virtue.

David Horowitz, former radical editor of Ramparts magazine, has written a reasoned and rational response to the inflammatory subject of slave reparations.

Essentially, Horowitz lays out Ten Rules that state that since the Civil War is over, and many African-Americans are very prosperous today, why should it be the responsibility of struggling, recent American immigrants to foot the bill for these past injustices, of which neither they nor their ancestors took any part?

Faced with factual analysis, reasoned arguments and logical thinking, the knee-jerk left was left with only one response...label Horowitz a racist.

The subject of slavery reparations is one not easily dealt with, and one that is bound to result in loud and intense debates. But avoiding intellectually honest discourse, as the left desires, will not resolve this festering issue. Discussing the issue openly, honestly and factually will contribute significantly more. Read the book and decide for yourself.

Once again, Horowitz has exposed how our academic institutions are creating a culture of intimidation while they fan the flames of hatred for the founding principles of our country. The average parent struggles to pay their children's education, unaware of the indoctrination and intolerance they support. Alumni continue to contribute to an institution that no longer resembles the oasis of free inquiry, open debate and rational analysis they remember. The "Reparations" issue is a vivid example of the PC atmosphere on campus.

With overwhelming logic, Horowitz demolishes the "Reparations" argument. With unending energy, he awakens us from our cynical resignation as we remember what it is like to fight an intellectual battle for a good cause. Having followed this controversial author on his website, frontpagemag.com, the book adds to the articles written by him and about him. His clear and impassioned rhetoric makes him one of the most controversial provocateurs - enjoy the read.

In this book, conservative commentator David Horowitz actually fights two fronts in he liberal-conservative "culture war".One is the idea of race reparations for slavery, the other, the entrenched leftist ideology of the modern American university. Horowitz began his battle by formulating "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery Is A Bad Idea--And Racist, Too" and sent it to 71 college newspapers nationwide in the form of an advertisement. The first half of the book deals mainly with reaction to the ad on college campuses. Horowitz details the reaction of university student newspaper editors, profeessors and administrators at places such as UC Berkeley, The University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Brown University. Here, Horowitz tells a chilling, frightening account of the kind of censorship attempted by the far left-of-center campus "commisars". This section is an eye-opener for those who still believe that our American universities are centers for the free exchange of ideas. The section on Brown University, and the lengths that some of the students would go to to suppress the ad is particularly disturbing.The last sections of the book are mainly devoted to the idea of reaparations for slavery itself. The idea itself has been floating around for many years, but has gained monmentum in the last decade due to the publication of the bestselling book "The Debt" by black activist Randall Robinson as well as the formal adoption of the reparations concept by the city councils of several US population centers including Chicago, Los Angeles, and Dallas. Horowitz gives a reasoned,well-researched refutation of the reaparations concept which leaves one wondering what the folks populating the campi were worried about. Could they be afraid of the truth? Buy this book. It is an essential part of the debate on an issue that will continue to be part of the American landscape, and a revelation to those who seek the truth.