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Evolving E-markets: Building High Value B2B Exchanges with Staying Power
Published in Paperback by ISI Publishing (31 December, 2000)
Authors: William Woods, Arthur Sculley, and et al
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Good for Public Net Market models only, hance outdated.
Outdated - even for Sculley and Woods - who also authored their own B2B book before this collection. The title is not correct. There is little "evolution" here - this is a great book if you just want to learn about public net market models; and not how they have evolved. To a few of us, these are now "past it" in that they are no longer "where it's at". Defining how to make public models work is reasonably simple and clear; what is missing here, and what most B2B leaders crave is knowledge concerning the real evolution - that from Public to Private and then to distributed P2P business models. That is where the game will be played out.

Good if you need stuff on public, centralizing models. Pretty poor if you want to read up on the evolution of e-markets.

Solid, insightful look below the covers of B2B marketplaces
While it appears that the stock market has lost faith with B2B pure-plays, this book highlights the power of new B2B business models. It's clear that there's more to come in B2B... even if Dot-coms don't capture all of the ultimate value.

I particulary enjoyed the section by Tempkin at Forrester Research. It provided a powerful look at how the Internet would ultimately impact businesses. While I'm not totaly convinced that the Internet will completely change how big, established businesses operate, his chapter was extremely thought provoking and should probably be read by any business executive thinking about what eBusiness will mean to them.


Strategy and Power in Russia 1600-1914
Published in Paperback by Free Press (01 October, 1998)
Author: William Fuller
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First rate presentation
Fuller was my prof at the Naval War College in 1998 and there were not many who could boil down more historical background to something intelligible yet still connect the dots as well as he. This book continues that admirable quality of his; in fact this was used as a text at the Naval War College in its "Strategy and Policy" trimester.

Despite its size this book is not a "typical" academic work. "Typical" in this case begin defined as a dense work characterized by turgid prose. Yes, the topic is difficult, but Fuller writes so well and brings out so much interesting detail (detail that others would allow editors to cast off as unimportant) that it can safetly be said that if you could read only ONE book on the rise of Russian power then this would be the one. First rate!

Interesting book
One of these really big books people are afraid to read. It contains a wealth of info, with the most interesting stuff found after the middle of the book (personal opinion). It covers a great period of time, which would normally not allow for an in-depth look in the issues discussed. However, Fuler, manages to give not only an in-depth presentaion of his subject, but a good analysis as well. I would readily recomend the book to anyone interested in strategy and its association with national policies. Really interesting book.


The Coming Battle for the Media: Curbing the Power of the Media Elite
Published in Hardcover by William Morrow (1988)
Author: William A. Rusher
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Well, maybe it's just as well...

William Rusher was a Wall Street lawyer who abandoned his legal career to become publisher of Bill Buckley's conservative 'National Review' magazine, a spot he no longer occupies. He is well-known for his appearances on the radio and television, his syndicated column, his lectures, and his political activism. He helped in Goldwater's campaign for the presidency in 1964.

In this book, he makes a persuasive case that the national media elite are heavily biased in favor of the politically liberal viewpoint. He supports his view with case histories, naming the people and outlets involved.

So, what else is new?

Accuracy in Media has been doing the same thing for years, to no avail. Polls have been taken, demonstrating that the reporters, editors, talking heads and other functionaries of network television news and the great newspapers (NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, USA Today) and the AP are all, virtually unanimously, devoted to the liberal cause.

The Constitution provides for freedom of the press, which includes the freedom to slant the news, if the practitioners choose to. There is no law that they be unbiased.

It is not an original thought with Rusher. This is just another book, telling us what we already know. Now, it is out-of-print.

Although it is well-written and persuasive, I think it is not a major loss. The sun rises in the morning; we have learned to live with that. We have also learned to live with a liberal press. It's just the nature of the beast.

Joseph Pierre,
Author of THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS: Our Journey Through Eternity


Free Priests: The Movement for Ministerial Reform in the American Catholic Church (A Campion Book)
Published in Paperback by Loyola Pr (1992)
Author: William F. Powers
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Married Catholic Priests Who Continue Their Ministry
Actually, I'm the author and just came across Free Priests on the Amazon list. Frankly, the book did not get much attention, although it is the only complete history of the organized efforts by married priests to work for church reform and even to go beyond asking and waiting for reform and acting on what they believe is their right as ordained priests. There are perhaps 20,000 married priests in the U.S. Someone has projected that some time in the next century there will be more married priests than celibate in this country! The book probably gets a little boring at times, in that I attempted to record as accurately as possible the organizational steps taken by married priests since after the Vatican Council until 1992.

The seeminly futile struggle of these idealistic men (and more often than not, their wives) is part of the larger struggle by "liberal" Catholics to make the church more democratic. However, the "conservatives" seem to be firmly in control of the institution and little progress has been made in the effort to make the church more responsive to the people and more atuned to modern ways of looking at things.

I would hope that Free Priests might sit there on library shelves and some day be of value when the history of the church in this country is written. Bill Powers. Feel free to contact me at WFPowers2@aol.co


Group Power 1: A Manager's Guide to Using Task-Force Meetings
Published in Paperback by ACT Publishing (01 October, 1986)
Author: William R. Daniels
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Group Power1: A Manager's Guide to Using Task-Force Meetings
Long Title, short book! I found this book to be an easy quick read with "real stuff" I was able to use now. I have used the techniques and tools described in the book to get more work done, more effectively from a special team. While the book is not new, Daniels' uses a straight forward language to educate us on the dynamics associated with team behaviors during team meetings. If you need to lead or facilitate team meetings, you must read this book!


Imagery for Healing, Knowledge, and Power
Published in Paperback by Fireside (1990)
Author: William D. Fezler
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A very practical guide on how to visualize
This book can open can help you in a lot of ways. Problably one of the best books about visualization. Highly recommended!


Land and Power: The Zionist Resort to Force, 1881-1948 (Studies in Jewish History)
Published in Hardcover by Oxford University Press (1999)
Authors: Anita Shapira and William Templer
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Fine background
This book differs from many histories of Israel by reaching into 19th century to examine and explain the roots and context for the Jewish nationalism that preceded Israel's 1948 establishment as a state.

Shapira's first chapter explains the plight of Europe's oppressed Jews, which led to Theodore Herzl's convocation of the first Zionist meeting in Switzerland in 1896. Although periodic slaughters never reached the level of the Chmielnicki pogroms in 1648 and 1649, which left more than 100,000 Jews dead, as the 20th century began, anti-Semitism in Europe remained a terrible force. The 19th and early 20th century were meanwhile an era of universal nationalism. Peoples around the globe reached into their respective pasts, bolstering identities and calling for national borders. For the Jewish people, nationalism was heightened by a threat to existence that few if other people (except the Turkish Armenians) experienced.

Shapira shows admirably that hope and self-preservation, not belligerence, drove the first and second waves of Jewish immigrants from Europe and elsewhere in the Middle East to Palestine. From 1881 through 1914, Jewish immigrants joined the families of co-religionists who had lived in Palestine since before the destruction of the second Temple in 70 AD. Some sensed hostility among young Arabs of Jaffa. Others, like David Ben Gurion and Berl Katznelson, remarked on little about Arab inhabitants except their extreme poverty, illiteracy and the diseases by which they were afflicted. The immigrants had no complex ideology or political structure; They merely wanted to live in Zion, which the Jewish people had for 2,000 years considered their homeland. Funded by Jewish organizations and philanthropists such as Baron Rothschild, they began buying land in quantity.

While some Jewish settlers developed a chauvinistic attitude, Shapira also shows that they had no plans to conquer resident Arabs. On the contrary, they adapted local customs and culture--wearing kaffia headdresses, riding horses and carrying weapons.

From 1905 on, as pogroms against Jews in Russia intensified, Jewish settlers arrived understanding the need for self-defense. Yet, no discernable confrontation between Arabs and Jews took shape until the Young Turk revolution rocked the Ottoman empire in 1908, bringing Arab nationalism to Syria in particular. Even then, disputes in Palestine remained local and concerned grazing rights and water. Buying land, Jews learned, did not always entitle them to water sources on it. Where Arabs considered grazing pastures public domain, Jews who had purchased land expected it to be theirs' alone. As they had in Europe, Jewish settlers optimistically hoped for peaceful relations with non-Jewish neighbors.

As World War I approached, however, moods crystallized. Zionist immigrants burdened their new situation with their previous outlook. As in Europe, they attributed the animosity of others to agitation and incitement, in this case, by Christian and urban Arabs. Here, as in Europe, incitement definitely existed. As the Ottoman grip on Palestine gave way to anarchy, anti-Jewish hatred increased. Jewish land purchasers were constantly beset by sellers' fraud: Claims and counterclaims, violence and counterviolence arose. Worse, legal purchases often displaced fellaheen--tenant farmers.

Based on their European experience, when violence arose against the Jews, they assumed the authorities would not protect them. Jewish settlers who had arrived hoping for peace and security in their ancient land discovered that they had exchanged one "existential threat for another." Jewish defensive thinking gelled after the Yom Kippur 1928 and August 1929 riots and lasted until 1936, when the Arab Rebellion--during which Jews were murdered with abandon--stimulated a Jewish offensive strategy.

This was followed by the most traumatic 9 years in Jewish history--1939 through 1947, during which the spontaneous response in Palestine was to go to the aid of Europe's Jews. Jews came, rightly, to believe that they could rely only on themselves. This ethos was celebrated by poets like Nathan Alterman and Hannah Senesh. The Nazis murdered the latter, then 26, after she parachuted behind enemy lines to aid her fellow Jews. In Palestine, Jewish self-preservation was directed at the British, whose grotesque 1939 White Paper, Shapira shows, locked Jews out of the National Home that the League of Nations approved for them in 1922. Alyssa A. Lappen


Lincoln's Rise to Power
Published in Hardcover by Scholarly Press (1971)
Author: William Baringer
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A good book on Lincoln's pre-presidential political career
This is a great book about Lincoln's political career in the years leading up to the Civil War. Baringer's focus in this book, as suggested by the title, is how Lincoln rose from relative obscurity as a prairie lawyer (and single-term Congressman) to President of the United States. Baringer does a wonderful job showing the importance of public perception, the press, and Lincoln's speeches, especially during the Lincoln-Douglas debates. These debates helped put Lincoln on the national stage. The one shortcoming of this book, in my opinion, is that it does not show how Lincoln reached the prominence in the Illinois Republican Party in the years from 1854 to 1858 to be put in that position of challenging Stephen A. Douglas for the Senate. In 1856, Lincoln was among those mentioned as a potential vice-presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, and he received the second highest number of votes. This must be taken into consideration when examining the emergence of Lincoln.


Liquefied Petroleum Gases: A Guide to Properties, Applications and Usage of Propane and Butane
Published in Textbook Binding by John Wiley & Sons (1974)
Authors: Alan Fowler. Williams and Walter Lowenstein Lom
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This book is very educational and helpful.
i believe this book shows us how we use our natural resources in a good way.


How to Give Your Mgb V8 Power
Published in Paperback by Veloce (01 July, 1999)
Author: Roger Williams
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