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Mr. Roberts treats this subject like a master. His down-to-earth analysis of the complex issues combined with his witty insights, make this book impossible to put down and a must read for anyone who wants to be literate in this society.

Roberts takes the census and breaks it down into relevant and meaningful data. Using charts, maps, and other helpful images, He brings the reader into the diverse and complex information garnered from the U.S. census. You'll find yourself quoting many of the compelling statistics given by Roberts.

Written in a precise and coherent manner this book is easy to read and comprehend. The text is extensively cross-referenced with the sources of GAAP. The book is filled with examples of GAAP apllication and will be definitely useful for both practitioners and advanced students of accounting.

This book is necessary for any person who works in the financial industry. It is detailed yet easy to understand. A very helpful reference book.

It's not just a history or war book for those readers who are interesting in WWII. A good reference of psychology and philosophy about death, hope, and future. I'm sure that u will find some value-change in life after read. As the writer, Max said, everyone are losers in the war. Compare with what he was facing at that time, are we living too comfort now? This is a real story of a German Soldier, real place, real people, real time and real blood. I can't stop reading since I started. Bore have never found in this book. I sorry about that Max can't provide the last part of his adventure in 1942-1945, those memories had gone along with him at 1990.

This is one of the best WWII German autobiographies i have come across. It describes young soldiers adventures from boot camp to last days of Russian offensive, including action, humor and tragedy throughout the whole book. Defenitly worth a read as it includes an insight from a German cavlary soldier during WWII, describes the progress of the Russian campaign accuratly and keeps the reader in suspence from the cover to cover.

In a new and expanded edition, Women & Guns: Politics And The Culture Of Firearms In America by Deborah Homsher is enhanced with primary source material as she lays out the contemporary phenomena of rapidly growing numbers of women in the United States who are arming themselves with guns for personal protection. Women & Guns is neither pro- nor anti-gun control, but a clear, balanced, methodical, insightful examination of what is happening with respect to this hot button social issue. Highly recommended for academic and community library reference collections, Women & Guns throws a spotlight of information and resources on the pressing danger and allure of guns in American society today.

For me personally, target shooting is a fun sport that has an added benefit of relieving stress. There's nothing like the thrill and excitement of hitting a bullseye.

Self defense is a whole other area women can get into after learning safety and the legal responsibility that goes along with that education.

This book interviews women from every walk of life, average citizens in a variety of situations from sport to self defense. The book removes the stereotypical pro or anti-gunner and lets the reader explore the cultural of firearms.

This book, published in 1981, still has plenty of powerful information and data for the person wanting to get a real feel for the ongoing revolution in Cuba. Especially as it revolves around women and their role in Cuban society in every level.
The introduction by Elizabeth Stone is valuable in giving serious background information to the Cuba before and after 1959 in the context of women's role in the struggle and in the battle for acceptance as equals in the home and on the job. However, the rest of the book is dedicated to primary source materials---from speeches by Vilma Espin and Fidel Castro, two of the long time leaders of the Cuban revolution--- to actual legal documents such as the "Maternity Law for Working Women" and "The Family Code". Women even after the revolution had to deal with the ideas of machismo such as "There are things even Fidel can not change!" They had to deal with the fact that even with a revolutionary government they still lived in an under-developed country with scarce resources.
How did this government turn around the Cuban legacy of menial jobs, if any, for women? Its high infant mortality rates? The illegality of abortion? Reading this book will give you the answers to those questions and many more.

Women in Cuba, who had been maids or prostitutes if they worked outside the home under the U.S.-backed dictatorship in the 1950s, joined enthusiastically in the 1959 revolution. Their hopes and determination were reflected at the 1966 conference of the Cuban Women's Federation(FMC) in a banner which said: "One million women working in production by 1970." In his speech before that banner, which is included in this book, Fidel Castro pointed out that thousands of child care centers, laundries and dining halls in schools would have to be built to make it possible for women to be gainfully employed in their hundreds of thousands.

Indeed, the "Thesis: On the full exercise of women's equality" adopted by the Cuban Communist Party in 1975 and also included in the book, states, "large numbers of women . . . leave productive activity, pressured by the objective and subjective difficulties they face in their family and social environment." But by 1980, thousands of day care centers, all free, had been built and over 800,000 women were working outside the home.

This inspiring book gives a picture of how the Cuban socialist system run by workers and farmers has improved women's lives, offering preventive medicine in every neighborhood, including birth control information and supplies, as well as abortion, all at no cost. We'll need to emulate the Cubans and get rid of the capitalist system that profits from paying women less and promotes thinking of ourselves as less than equal. Even then this book will be valuable as an example of confronting the challenges ahead in eradicating the oppression of women.

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Terrific writing very accessible to the reader whose first or second choice in reading is not poetry. A wide range of emotions and subjects I thought several of the poems were lovely.

I bought this book because the author's books `Skin' and `Trash' are spotlighted in the anthologies `Courting Pleasure' and `Lovers: love and sex stories' by Tee A. Corinne. I enjoyed them both tremendously and sought out this book.

The 1983 edition is Illustrated by Laurie McLaughlin.

From the publisher's website - Razor sharp, angry, and full of passion, Dorothy Allison stands her ground and refuses to leave any of the hard stuff behind. Whether writing about her dirt-poor Southern childhood, its brutalities and its love, or her lesbian lust--her outlaw sexuality--her poetry is cheeky, touching, and on target as she speaks the truth to the women she loves.

this book of poetry by southern writer dorothy allison is an amazing and personal narative of her life growing up poor and southern. it spans her childhood through her experineces as a lesbian feminist and as a femme lover of butch dykes. the imagery is rich, the stories heartfelt. this is a very accessable book of poetry with beautiful moments that everyone can relate to. buy this book.

In this small book, Charles Kindleberger succeeds in giving us an insight why and which countries got and lost the world economic primacy : the Italian city-states (Venice, Florence, Genoa, Milan), Portugal and Spain, the Low Countries, Great-Britain, the US.
His main sources are F. Braudel, I. Wallerstein and M. Olson.

This book is a short but eminent course in economic history, from which we can learn a lot for our actual economic policies (e.g. the causes for decline).
The external causes are wars, and new discoveries (gold) and inventions in other countries.
The internal causes are risk aversion, increased consumption, decreased savings, reduced gains in productivity, decline in innovation, resistance to taxation, mounting debt, rent-seeking, speculative bubbles, gambling, corruption, increasing governmental and corporate bureaucracy, unwillingness to adapt to change. (p. 215-7)

A must for every economist and also for the layman.

... one likely to be unappreciated in his time.

Seldom do the social sciences permit such an overarching treatise on what has been the greatest and, at the same time, most tragic four centuries in (in)human history.

Mr. Kindleberger captures the essence of the "age of acquisitors" in an unprecedented manner. Hats off to Professor Kindleberger.

This collection of poems is truly beautiful. Some of the material in here is accessible to anyone while some of it is more essoteric. Being a collection, it covers a wide range of work, some of which I like more than others. When Wright succeeds, though, he does so more brilliantly than any other contemporary poet I know of.

This collection begins with "Homage to Paul Cezanne," one of Wright's most accessible poems and the first poem I would pick to teach students about metaphor. It begins:

The dead are a cadmium blue.
We spread them with palette knives in broad blocks and planes.

We layer them stroke by stroke
In steps and ascending mass, in verticals raised from the earth.

We choose, and layer them in,
Blue and a blue and a breath,

Circle and smudge, cross-beak and buttonhook,
We layer them in. We squint hard and terrace them line by line.


You can see in this passage the seeds of the lulling rhythm, like walking meditation, that has become Wright's signature: "Blue and a blue and a breath." In the fifteen years since this book was issued, Wright has refined his technique to become master of the minimalist nature lyric; this relatively early collection showcases the transition from poet to genius as the author gropes for and finds his music.

Wright's work is among the best literature to come out of the South this century, and he is only improving with time. I can only assume that the entire Appalachian Book of the Dead series will be reprinted in one gigantic tome sometime in the next decade or two. In the meantime, if you can't afford to buy each of his books now, springing for this one is a great place to start.

My kids love to have their own calendar on the wall to keep track of birthdays, special occasions and just the passing of the weeks and months. This calendar has been a big favorite and my 7-year-old daughter looks so forward to the end of every month so that she can make the airplane. It is a self-made deadline....you can make any of them at any time without goofing up the calendar one bit. The planes are fairly complicated so they are good for an adult/child project....and, they actually fly! I think making these brightly colored planes is good for their creativity and engineering skills--an extra bonus to the calendar and the fun!

Complicated airplanes for kids and parents or obsessed adults, this calendar has an airplane at the end of each month. Pre-printed, ready to cut out and fold, the skill level requires at least a 12 year old ability or the help of a parent. I actually think this would be a great idea for behavior modification strategies for something different.

Riley's and Rimmer's guide is a must-have for serious comsumers of pornography, covering, as it does, the years when (arguably) porn first skirted the crusted fringe of mainstream pop-culture. True, pornography perhaps first demanded critical scrunity when VHS brought it out of the ... booth in the 80s; but such a demand was, at best, muted. But when "Ass Rage 3" and "Natural Bone Drillers" (both given 5 stars in this guide) hit the shelves we witnessed an artistic reclamation which enabled the soi-disant culturally savvy elite to buff the chubster and bandy about terms like "Gen-X kitsch" and "post-PC irony." This tremendous guide is alive to that seminal shift, and indeed provides video-still evidence of several graphic examples of it. Hats off to the authors for such a perceptive treatment.

I thought that it was a very good book if you like sex and I tried a few of the suggestions on getting to know your lover with my wife and she seemed to enjoy the new me.So that is why I am interrested in futher videos and books.Please give us new material to enjoy!!!!!!!!!!