Precious insights and observations by an articulate diarist add much to the understanding of the common man's war.

This book offers an especially sensitive and sympathetic introduction to rug weaving, a major element of Navajo culture, and is typical of the quality books published by Northland Press.

Noel Bennett accomplished something which few outsiders even try on the Navajo Nation. Based on her background and experience, she set out to understand and learn one of the traditional crafts -- weaving a rug from raw wool to finished product. It looks easy. After all, lots of Anglos weave. Some even spin yarn. The whole process, from raw wool to a finished rug that is work of art, sounds simple in the telling; but, reality is different.

Let me give you an example. Fry bread is a traditional Navajo food, which almost every woman can make without thinking. It's as natural as walking. Maybe one of the simplest of traditional Navajo skills. I've tried to learn one element of it, taking a small ball of dough and patting and kneading it out to a circle about a foot in diameter that is then dropped into hot oil to be cooked to a golden brown.

It was a lot of fun. The Navajos got a lot of amusement out of watching me try and mostly fail, day after day. I had fun trying. My "teacher" was kind, helpful, patient and amused; she'd show me again and again, but I inevitably ended up with a lumpy disc of dough that she'd patiently pat into a proper circle before laying it in the frying pan.

In other words, it ain't as easy as it looks.

Bennett undertook a similar but far more complicated learning experience in the 1960s. Unlike me, she stayed with it and became skilled. One result is this book, a sensitive semi-insider's look at a traditional craft that exemplifies one of the few genuine American art forms. Her desire to learn was appreciated by her Navajo friends; one reward is she becomes a target of their good natured humor, a friend of the family.

Many outsiders "study" and patronize Native American cultures; Bennett became part of it. There is a genuine "Us vs. Them" attitude among the Navajo, with very good reason based on the constant Bordertown (Gallup, Winslow, Holbrook, Flagstaff, Farmington, etc.) prejudice and exploitation. The Navajos came to regard Bennett as one of "the People," so when it came to entering a rug in an off-reservation exhibition her Navajo friends helped her evade some pretentious Anglo rules.

It's always fun to poke fun at the bilagaana (Anglos). Their pretensions are too good not to laugh at.

Americans like to think, "Underneath, everyone is basically the same." Bennett appreciates there are fundamental differences between Navajo and Anglo cultures. She touches on it, such as the importance of "four" in Navajo culture. Anglo culture is based on "three," such as the Trinity in religion and three examples if you want to prove something; Navajo culture has "four" as typified by the four cardinal directions, four sacred mountains, four basic colors, four precious materials for jewelry.

Bennett cites these examples, but she never really delves into the meaning of these cultural differences. For example, Anglos live in a confrontational culture of guilt or innocence; Navajos live in a consensus culture in which K'e, the spirit of harmony, is more important.

But, she lived in the western Navajo Nation where the more traditional people live; the eastern side, where I lived, is more accustomed to pushy Anglos. She feigns shock at some Anglo ways; my experience is that most Navajos fully understand the aggressive Anglo world and its rude contrast with their patience. She is more of a nizhoni (beautiful) person; I'm more of the Ma'ii tso (which has far more meanings than simply "fox").

In general, though, she offers a sympathetic, intelligent insight into rug weaving -- one of the integral elements of Navajo culture. Her book is the epitome of Anglo culture -- an "insider's" view of a different culture, one that most people will never see and even fewer will ever have a chance to begin to understand.

It's well worth buying, reading, keeping and sharing with friends.

This book provides a sympathetic treatment to Gen. J. Burgoyne. The problems that a commander faced in the 18th century still plague the 21st century commanders. The book relates the political intrigue that was going on in Parliment while Gen. Burgoyne was conducting his campaigne in the then American Colonies. His integrity was resolute. A very good report on the Battle of Saratoga was provided and his decision to surrender was not frivolous.

The "Naval Terms Dictionary" is essentually that, a dictionary of terms often used in the Navy. While it is geared for the modern navy, a good many antiquated terms (from the age of sail) are in it as well, though not all.

While the "Naval Terms Dictionary" is a great tool, I have found a few drawbacks to it. While it is set up alphabetically like a normal dictionary, it completely lacks any sort of pronunciation guide for words (some of those terms are pronounced funny) and a listing of what type of word it is (noun, verb, adj, etc). It also neglects to seperate different definitions for the words, opting to give both in a paragraph form. You can usually define the type of word it is from the definition, but it would have been a little more professional to write it in a standard dictionary format.

Overall, despite its relatively minor flaws, this book is a great tool for folks who are in the navy, or read a lot of naval history and fiction.

This "Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology" has an admirable practical approach. It depicted the characteristics of bacterial groups in a straightforward manner. Using a wide focus, it featured vivid illustrations, which will enable you to reason like a professional. The manual provided a good number of easy-to-master materials.
However, I felt that this 9th Edition, which first appeared in 1994, is just too old. The authors should give us a more recent update. Also, the high retail price of this book ensured that many people would go for a better alternative. There are lots of them out there! The choice is yours.

The book is big and heavy and is filled with useful information for the world of microorganisms. All microbiology majors must have this book in their libraries. This book helps you identify, compare, and understand microorganisms better. Every organism is descibed in detail: gram-stain reactions, fermentation reaction, morphology, etc.

I am not an assassination buff but I have bought a fair amount of books related to the subject.

I am very choosy of which book I buy because book prices are high and assassination progress is slow.

I believe Bloody Treason is a must for anybody interested in finding out new lines of enquiry and updates of old ones. Serious progress is also made in relating the enquiry into 'the big picture' of the assassination itself and the fact that more that one 'cabal' and/or groups -at many different levels- may have been actively involved.

The chapter of the forged x-rays is written in such a way that it even makes it thrilling to find out what really happened. It is detective work of a very good quality.

New theories like the forging of the Zapruder film is also painstakingly put together. In this case the subject matter is not thriller material but very important to discuss and to log.

Twyman, the author, is sincere when he cannot follow a line of enquiry for lack of time and/or when something doesn't quite add up to much but is worth discussing and considering it for further research.

Twyman also goes out of his way to maintain an objective balance in his own research. This is an example to other assassination writers. In the past, the competive nature of some researchers make them lose perspective in their own research. Twyman is genuinely complementary of other authors such as Jim Garrison, Mark Lane, David Lifton, Gaeton Fonzi and others.

If you are new reader on the assassination of Kennedy, this book is all you need for the time being. If you know a lot about it, it is vital to relate the details to the whole. Bloody Treason encompasses the entire assassination universe. From the foot soldiers and bystanders to the potential paymasters and organisers. The presentation is such that you can almost follow the planners as they close in on the kill.

I will not critisize any theory put forward in this book becuase each reader reader will have to do that. This book -as well as others on the subject- require an active mind on the part of the reader.

My recommendation to future assassination researchers is that they should unite according to area of expertise and thoroughly research individual lines of investigation. Then they should publish together the findings. It is a pity that investigative minds like Twyman and others have to be so broad in their research. Maybe Twyman himself should be the General Director of this investigative team because he has the right mind for it (not having been an assassination 'specialist' before the publication of this book).

Maybe this could be Twyman's next project. 10 inquisitive authors each researching anything that concerns the names that appear in Bloody Treason such as Gerry Patrick Hemmings, HL Hunt, David Sanchez Morales, William Harvey, David Atlee Phillips, E Howard Hunt, Frank Fiorini, Jean Rene Soutre and others. Imagine what can be achieved by such team investigation. I believe the next big break will come from that line of research. The first one to try it was Gaeton Fonzi with David Sanchez Morales. In a way, to cite the same 'by line' for each one of the above names is not enough. There's got to be more that can be dug out in relation directly or indirectly to the assassination. The subject is crying out for 'biographies' of these people in order to understand how the CIA, FBI work in covert operations. But from the point of view of the individual carrying out the orders.

I believe there is a fear among some researchers to go on a 'wild goose chase' if they don't cast their net wide enough and miss out on some new nugget of information.

Last but not least I would like to correct a mistake which I detected on the subject of CIA torturer Dan Anthony Mitrione. Its on page 427 under the title 'Epilogue' it reads "Morales was a CIA man in charge slaughtering the Tupamaros in Ecuador for their murdering none other than Dan Mitrone." It should ready "Uruguay" instead of "Ecuador". Mitrone worked as a CIA torture teacher in several countries in South America in the 60s and 70s but it was the Uruguayan Tupamaros that kidnapped him and after a trial he was summarily executed for the crime of being a confirmed torturer. Incidentally Mitrione was a devout Catholic with 10 children. Did he belonged to the Mafia? What was his connection to the CIA? What else knew about David Sanchez Morales? Did he work in Uruguay?

The devastating realisation of Twyman's book is that for the assassination to succeed it must have involved people at the top echelons of several US Government institutions and businesses. The quality of the planning and the cover-up is a warning to us all to be vigilant about our civil liberties and never to give up the search for truth.

Noel Twyman, with a degree in engineering, and the time, contacts and money to do it right, has brought us a work of great value. He reviews most of the major conspiracy theories, and through his own research and logical deductions finally arrives at his conclusion, a conclusion that time may show is as close to the mark as any ever put forth. By combining in-depth personal interviews with suspects such as Gerald Patrick Hemming and high-ranking Kennedy/Johnson administration officials like Robert S McNamara, with scientific re-evaluations of the autopsy photos and Zapruder film, Twyman weaves his way to his final conclusion, which unlike most other conspiracy books, includes all the evidence. A must buy for all wanting to find the truth.

It is not very often that one book can add so much that is new and invaluable when dealing with a topic as complex as the Assassination of JFK.

But in this case, that has been accomplished. Noel Twyman, author of Bloody Treason, has written a classic of giant proportions that will rank with the top five books on this topic ever written.

Noel covers the entire spectrum of the JFK plot from the very highest levels that includes FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and Lyndon Baines Johnson through the middle layers that encompassed the machinations of H. L. Hunt, the Texas oil billionaire, and even included several defrocked former Generals like the head of Douglas MacArthur's G-2 for decades, Charles A. Willoughby and Maj Gen Edwin A. Walker who was indicted for insurrection when he led the anti-integration riots at Oxford, Mississippi in the 1960's. Walker had been forced to resign for leading a John Birch style indoctrination campaign of his troops in Germany during his last command there.

Perhaps some of the most valuable insights into the case came directly from extensive interviews with one of the most omnipresent Soldiers of Fortune involved with the anti-Castro machinations prevalent at that time, Gerry Patrick Hemming who was involved with numerous U.S. Gov sponsored and several unofficial actions against the Castro regime. Hemming, a skilled prevaricator, seems to have been involved with every major covert operation during the 1960s's from Cuba to Florida to Louisiana to Texas and even California, by his own telling. The chapters involving Hemming are well worth the price of the book by themselves. Separating the braggadaccio from the whole truth is a challenge presented to the reader by the author, and it is not an easy task.

The only disappointment that I felt after perusing the entire work and searching for the ultimate summation and conclusions was this one item. Even though Noel Twyman spends over 500 pages of the 700 page magnum opus discussing and analyzing and inte! rpreting the effect of the movement known as Right Wing Extremism in the conundrum surrounding the murder of JFK he pulls some punches at the end and fails to deliver what I believed to be a well deserved series of death blows to that movement and its membership.

Certainly he builds a very strong case to that effect and even comments how truly ironic it is that almost everyone who was involved with some aspect of the character assassination of JFK was not only a Right Wing Extremist but also quite likely involved somehow with the actual assassination or the discussion of those events.

That is the only shortcoming that I was able to find in an otherwise brilliantly composed and portrayed work that is a tribute to the intellectual capacity and patience of the author who was never published before this work. To be able to interpret and consume almost 35 years of the written and the spoken word about a topic as complex as the assassination of JFK is a feat onto itself. But to be able to separate the wheat from the chaff and to focus on the primary commonality that was shared by all of those who wanted to see JFK die, the Right Wing Extremists, is a courageous step in the right direction.

This book is even more relevant today in light of the continued character assassination attacks on our current President, William Jefferson Clinton that emmanate from the far right extremists of today. To stand by idly and do nothing is to invite a repeat performance of the 1960's, in my opinion. The direct lineage back to those who were involved in the attacks on JFK is apparent to all but the terminally obtuse.

I challenge all of you to buy this book and read it and then to mount a massive counter-attack on both the tactics and the tacticians of the far right before they are able to consummate the plan that they hatched over 35 years ago. Whether by hook or by crook they are determined to wrest control of the US Government from the duly elected representatives of the citizenry. Only your continue! d blase attitude and lack of action will allow these McCarthy style campaigns to succeed.

If you ever wanted to strike a blow at McCarthyism or Hitlerism or Right Wing Extremism, but were too young or too naive or too unprepared to do so, then now is the time to stand up and be counted and to do something to reverse their onslaught against both an elected Democracy and our system of Republicanism. Right Wing Extremism is nothing more or less than a combination of the worst of McCarthyism and Hitlerism and John Birchism whether you can accept it or not.

To quote Mary Ferrell, the grand dame of all JFK assassination researchers in her preface to Bloody Treason:

"I salute you, citizen Twyman for your efforts."

I join Mary in her salute to Noel Twyman and to anyone else who has the guts and the courage to stand up and be counted and to do something to fight back against the organized efforts of the right wing extremists who are counting on your apathy in order to install their candidates in the State Houses of this Nation, in the Senate and the House of Representatives and in the White House in Washington, DC. They shall not prevail.

As though it will make things better to feel guilty about sharing the physical characteristics of an immense ethnic group, some of whose members happened to win and succeed in the past,and who did not necessarily treat everyone as nicely as they could have, this poorly-written, poorly-thought out product of what was little more than a semi-literate punk-type zine in the early 1990s has gotten way too much mileage for its toxic combination of misanthropy against "whites" and naive, feckless glorification of "non-whites." Its look at ethnicity may have been cutting-edge in about 1970, when people were still excited about the anthropological proclamation that there is insufficient biological difference between humans to identify "races"; it assaults a windmill, a scarecrow that does not exist. The simple fact is that American whites, by and large, except for a few oddballs, actually wish well to non-whites, but are sick of being blamed for things that they personally did not do; another simple fact is that there has never been a nation without a dominant ethnic group and there has never been a nation whose dominant ethnic group has bent over backward as much as American whites to extend privileges to just about anyone, whether or not any offense has been done to such persons' ancestors. But sober recognitions do not do well with the angry, politically naive, quite easily led troop of college malcontents who buy into the nonsense embodied in "Race Traitor." Perhaps these hapless teens are attracted to the stark formulations contained in the "Race Traitor" mindset; I was attracted to dramatic extremes too when I was a stupid kid, before I realized the world has very little pure good or evil. "Race Traitor" paints a picture satisfying only to those yearning for a sense of an injustice to rail against in order that they might feel something rather than realize their personality is an empty hole. A less balanced view of American ethnic relations cannot be found. I only pity the guilty whites who buy this and buy into this and feel that they should be responsible for the misdeeds of people in the past with whom they happen to share the same pigmentation. A pathetic, stupid book.

this is a fantastic collection of essays and poetry (2 poems). it is necessary for americans to finally come to terms with the fragility of being "white". why does being "white"-skinned, or having a white parent, not prevent the discrmination of Latinos, Blacks, and Asians? the simple truth is that "white" and "race" are all socially constructed "truths" to divide a potentially awe-inspiring nation of nations. what happens when "white" people wake up and call for an end to racial oppression? read the book...

...RACE TRAITOR does not promote self-loathing among whites. Its task is to abolish white dominance by showing examples of personal sacrifice for those who are oppressed. It is an important text for anyone who is willing to free their mind of current conservative political jargon and create a solution to the epidemic of racial hierarchy...

Firstly, I must clarify my rating of this volume. Byron is my favorite of the English poets, surpassing Dryden, Pope, and all the rest. His works have the perfect combination of meter, content, and the malignantly dark atmosphere that I consider essential. Thus, I would hope that no one interprets my 3-star rating as a comment on the poet, or his works thereof.

As for this edition, however, the results are mixed. It is a heavy paperback, with a rather thick cover and pages, and is actually sewn. Unfortunately, the reason I know it is sewn is that the spine of my copy cracked severely, and I can see the threads (incidentally, this happened on the very first page of "The Corsair" - certainly because of the degree of use in that section of the book!). The book is printed in double columns, which serves to lessen the number of pages required (still over 900). However, in the poems which have somewhat longer lines than the others, this means that nearly every metrical "line" is split into two lines on the page (I am thinking specifically of "Childe Harold", "The Corsair" and "Lara" here, although this shows up in other places as well). This is, to say the least, distracting and detracts from the overall reading experience. The font is small, but not unreadably so (older or glasses-requiring readers will likely disagree). Lastly, if you are interested in a "critical" edition of Byron, this may not be the best choice: it includes notes that Byron himself wrote, but they are not particularly illuminating.

The works of Byron are themselves worth owning, without question. The question is if this edition is sufficient. It is complete, and is reasonably well bound. I haven't had a chance to look at the Penguin Classics edition of Byron, in two volumes, which I suspect is in single columns but may not be complete. The other alternative is to find an old edition, preferably one in a format large enough to permit double columns without causing lines to split. However, this is simply not feasible for the casual reader (it took me four months... to acquire such an edition, but it's very nice), and, as such, this edition will do; be aware that it does have its caveats.

The book is good. It has the requisite number of solved
problems and most of the topics of material forming such
as Fundamentals, Forging, Drawing, Extrusion, Sheet Metal
Working are covered
with clear cut mathematical derivations, but topics like
Advanced Metal Forming (High Energy Rate Forming, Flow Forming..)
aren`t covered. Latest techniques like Liquid metal Forging,
No Draft forging are missing.
Overall, it is a necessity for all Production Engg students
but not completely exhaustive.

This author tried, but I'm afraid the book is now somewhat obsolete with the publication of new linguistic information in Christopher Tolkien's editions.

I faithfully copied down the tengwar (in my rather bad handwriting) and the Quenya conjugations, though I have no conception if the latter are really right. I noticed that mutation (the change of an initial letter, as Balrog -- i Malrog) isn't ever mentioned, that I could find. In addition, of Elvish languages, only Quenya and Sindarin really get mentioned -- again, some of the more obscure languages were unknown to the public until the History of Middle-Earth was published. Interesting issues, such as the existence of Exilic Noldorin (I'm a believer in this!) weren't available yet for the author to discuss.

I was interested to find that the language of Rohan is really Anglo-Saxon letter for letter.

Because it's dated, this is hard to recommend, though one has to appreciate the work the author did.

It's a pretty good dictionary if you want to find out what somthing is in the lord of the rings books or somthing similar, but if you want to find out about the language and how to write it or speak it, you might as well pick up the Return of The King Appendix E and look at that. If you want to know good info about the language, search the internet. A good middle earth dictionary is the Complete Guide to middle Earth by Robert Foster. All in All, this is not a very good book.

The languages of Tolkien's Middle Earth is a great book. I was particularly impressed with the Elvish to English and English to Elvish dictionaries. It tells a lot about Tolkien and the early formations of his ideas. It's a worthwhile book.