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The book introduces you in detail to Michael (Mickey) Schwerener and all the details leading up to his murder. This detail will help you understand exactly why and how these murders took place.
This latest edition includes updates by the author to compare his early speculation against the results of the trial.

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The book has a few historical errors, all of them regarding Puerto Rico and its culture, and the narrative is sometimes repetitive. That is why I did not rate it as a 5 star book. But overall, it is an excellent military history narrative on one of the most decorated fighting units in the U.S. Army and the only Batallion to be transferred from the U.S. Army onto a National Guard when the time came to deactivate it. These men, along with every other war time hero, deserve our eternal thanks and our admiration for sacrificing their youth in order to preserve Freedom and Democracy.

On another note the 65th was not a battalion but a Regiment composed of serveral battalions(just a correction to a previous review).


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"This Far By Faith" focuses on how blacks have used faith to overcome hardship and become triumphant. The most compelling aspect of the book is the leaders and their supporters. Repeatedly throughout history, religious leaders have used faith to promote unity, separatism, prosperity, education, nationalism, equality, humanity, etc among their followers and in attempts to sway others toward the truth.
"This Far By Faith" Timeline:
·Religious tribal practices
·Slave masters reinforcing slavery through Christianity
·Slaves acclimating to Christianity then forming black Protestant churches, e.g. AME, so blacks would not be subservient worshippers in the house of God
·The role that education played in further developing the black church. The over-emphasis placed on the education lead to the founding of COGIC
·The start and end to several short-lived Christian-based followings.
·As people began to migrate north, new religious figures with (believed) ties to Africa began to emerge. The rise of the Moors and Muslims caused many blacks to rethink how Christianity was introduced to them during Slavery
·The birth and rise of the Nation of Islam
·The role that black churches and the Nation of Islam played during the civil rights movement.
·The movement or freedom for blacks to practice "alternative" religions such as Hinduism or Buddhism
·Modern day black church impact on today's 18 - 34 year old worshippers.
· How the recent surfacing of the 5 percenters aim to explain the state of people in society and faith
The progression is explored through short stories (each chapter ~25 pages). Within the chapter there are gray page stories or inserts to offset specific events, biographies and less familiar religions. At times these mini stories were disruptive to the chapters because they either spanned too many pages or didn't clearly relate to the chapter.
Each chapter shows how individuals truly wanted faith to promote social unity and growth within their own community. The positive intentions to bring people closer to God or Allah and make their secular life better resulted in further division among people. The history of faith and social division are illustrated through the stories explaining why society will never have one agreed upon religion and why there will always be racial division among the same denomination within each denomination.
My only complaint about "This Far By Faith" is how the timeline is rushed or less researched after the height of the Civil Rights movement. The authors provide extensive detail (maybe too much) on the Nation of Islam, black churches, and specific activists during this era but no detail is given to either faith's role in shaping the community or its followers in the '70s and beyond. Black people's faith in God or Allah did not stop with the Civil Rights movement! Subsequent chapters briefly discuss other religions and excessively discuss Kirk Franklin's role in promoting faith among young adults. The authors introduce the reader to the 5 percenters but fall short on clearly identifying the appearance in society - maybe their existence is too short.
Overall, good book to easily understand and learn the history of the various faiths practiced among African Americans.

THIS FAR BY FAITH is an indepth book about African American History. In this day and age you can't really imagine being in slavery or being told where you can sit, eat or drink. You realize how strong we are as a people to overcome and endure such demeaning treatment. And how our faith in God pulled us through then, and can pull us through now. This is a MUST HAVE for every African American household.
Reviewed by Eraina B. Tinnin
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers


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... I am sure that some of these examples worked, but only in the head of the author who authored the chapter. I am so upset about this one; ...

The layout is sloppy and poorly thought out - eg they have 2 pages of code and THEN they describe what is happening in the previous 2 pages, requiring you to be costantly flicking back and forth. Simply repeating each line of code with its explanation would have made it so much easier to read (authors should check out "OOP with Actionscript" to see how it SHOULD be done).
The code that is included is full of stuff like
gotoAndPlay("whatever");//used to be gotoAndStop
making it obvious that the author hasn't even bothered to clean up their code before slapping it in the book. When covering a complicated topic like this, having comments that reveal the "mistakes" that the author made along the way is confusing, annoying and inexcusable (not to mention very revealing about the amount of effort [or lack thereof] that went into this book).
Save your money
cheers

I thought this book was unique in that it didn't get into the hows and whats of Flash, but straight into some very interesting example code. It also doesn't focus purely on Flash, but integrating flash with web application server products like ColdFusion and ASP.
While I'd never be able to create any of these examples on my own, it was quite cool being able to walk through each code example and see how everything works. Some of the Flash code was a bit hairy to follow, but they did attempt to explain it. Rather than learning what the code meant, I just read the comments stating what the code does and moved on. Unless you're experienced in flash, you won't be able to follow the code line for line. However, wading in example apps above your capabilities is a great place to learn.
Each chapter is a different example application, focusing on a dynamic backend. Some use ASP, some use ColdFusion, etc. So you can pick your middleware of choice and they'll be an example here for you where you can view both the Flash code, as well as the code it interfaces with to achieve dynamic content.
I wouldn't recommend this book as your soul source of Flash instruction, but it is a unique book rich with very usable example code. I didn't learn much Flash actionscript from this book, but I did come out of it with a good understanding of how Flash can be dynamic, using XML to communicate back and forth to your scripting language of choice. If that's what you're after, this might be a good book for you.


Juan Bautista Chapa, native of Albisola, near Genoa, participated in this entrada and chronicled it among other events in his Historia del Reino de León which traces the history and colonization of northeastern Mexico and Texas in rich detail for the period between 1650-1690. Chapa intended his history to be a follow-on to Alonso (the elder) de León's Discourses which detailed the history of this region prior to 1650. Chapa's Historia demonstrates the author's literary acumen through a mournful poem written as a memorial to the dead French encountered in 1689 at La Salle's settlement. This history has become the key contemporary work from which any historical study of this region must begin.
This volume is the first widely accessible and accurate English translation of Chapa's Historia. Elegantly translated by Ned F. Brierley and annotated by William C. Foster, who is becoming known for his welcomed efforts in bringing to the English-speaking world the chronicles of other Spanish expeditions into Texas, this book is a valuable addition to the historiography of colonial Mexico and Texas. Foster provides a cogent and insightful introduction in which he details the history of Chapa's manuscript and an analysis of the history and puts it in context with De León's Discourses. Foster has added De León's previously unpublished revised diary of his 1690 expedition into Texas as well as a listing of the 80 Indian tribes identified in this book. This book is essential reading for all students and scholars of Mexico's far north frontier and Texas. Additionally, the descriptions of the Indians, vegetation, wildlife, and climate in seventeenth-century Texas, will be of interest to ethnographers, anthropologists, and biogeographers. Genealogists of northeastern Mexico and south Texas will also benefit because the book contains some muster listing of the expeditioners-whose many descendants presently carry their names throughout the region and beyond. So names in genealogical trees and pedigrees get fleshed-out and placed in historical context.