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This book helped me to realize that there are many parents out there who are faced with life changing news everyday. Through reading the experiences in this book, it showed me the different emotions wrapped up in families with disabilities. I am studying to be a special education teacher, and I know that this book will be a reference for me when relating to the parents of my students. If you are a special educator, or anyone whose life has been touched by a child with a disability, you MUST purchase this book!

Fascinating Kenny Klinkert

Great account into the life of this street-wise philosopher. Interesting how many of the folks in Laguna Beach know him and cheer him on with positive "cat calls" as he skips along the streets and alleys of this town. It's nice to hear how he mixes religion and philosophy into curious reflections on life. Kenny Klinkert has led and is leading a very interesting life, and has made it a positive one despite the horrors of his childhood. I found this book an engaging read, into the very different mind and world of Kenny F. Klinkert By the way, I ran across this book during genealogical research into my last name. So who knows, we might be related!

This is an excellent book that really shows how to effectively sell to key accounts. Strategies and related tactics are presented for dealing with different sized customers in different industries competing under different competitive situations.

For example, the author shows clearly how to change your selling proposition when working with small companies in a growing industry versus working with a large company in a mature industry.

This is only one small example of the wealth of information in this book.

This will be a great book for new salespeople but is also excellent for seasoned veterans who want to stay ahead of the pack.

Nikita S. Khrushchev was perhaps the most interesting leader the Soviet Union ever had, and was certainly one of the most intriging characters of the 20th century. A strange mix of the wise and the foolish, he tried, but could not significantly change, the U.S.S.R. for the better. In some ways, Gorbachev was the "Khrushchev" of this time, and not the other way around.

I read this book in grad school and could not put it down. As the son of, as the Americans called him, 'Mr. K,' Sergei Khrushchev had a special perspective on this man and his time, and this is a must-read for anyone interested in the subject. The younger Krushchev certainly loved his father, and it shows in the book sometimes to access, but by and large the account is objective.

There are several touching and personal passages in the book, too numerous to mention here. I was particularly taken with the episode in which the younger Krushchev found out about the coup that was about to overtake his father and warned him that (rough transcription): "X is setting up a coup against you." He then got the shock of his life when his father came home from the Politburo the next day ranting (rough transcription again): "You silly boy! I just spoke to X today. He says there's no coup going on!" Classic Nikita S. Khrushchev.

Sergei N. Khrushchev has succeeded in producing a sensitive, illuminating account of a special time in our world. The book is an easy and concise read, yet the reader will come out with a very deep understanding of so many of the people and forces that shaped that time. This is what good reading is supposed to be. Bravo!

Muhammad Baqir's seminal work on Lahore provides a historical breakthrough in the field that has not been matched since. In the only history of Lahore ever compiled exclusively from primary sources, the author stitches together a fluid and comprehensive account of the ancient and modern Punjabi capital, from its mythical Hindu origins to its bright Mughal glory, up to and including the Sikh era, British domination, eventual liberation, and the current state of decay and rebirth.

This book takes the reader across a breakthtaking panorama of empires and lands, culminating at dusk when the sun descends behind the crumbling glory of Lahore.

Several historians from reputable universities in the UK and US have reviewed this book favourably, with one reviewer from Cambridge observing that it provides the best account in print of Partition, the British granting of independence to Pakistan and India in 1947.

Baqir's life itself is worthy of its own book. He was a scholar, a poet, a statesman, a linguist, a novelist, a collector of Oriental archaeology, an historian, a professor, a journalist, and served in the British Royal Air Force during the Second World War, for which he won several medals of recognition.

Baqir's prodigious literary output, spanning eight decades and crossing three continents, saw him publish at least eighty works, ranging from novels and poetry to travel guides, and to his most famous historical books on India, Pakistan and Iran, in addition to hundreds of newspaper columns and essays. He wrote in four different languages (English, Urdu, Punjabi and Farsi), often providing the translations for his own work.

His instrumental role in the intellectual movement to liberate India from the British, and in the creation of Pakistan when it was still a pipe dream in an old poet's head, made him personally and professionally close to Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru, and the old poet himself, Allama Iqbal.

His vocation as professor of South Asian and Near Eastern history and languages led him to teach at such respected institutions as Cornell University, the University of London, and Punjab University (Lahore). He was a dazzling lecturer and brilliant conversationalist, both entertaining and educating his audience.

Upon Baqir's death in 1993, he had built a body of work unrivalled before or since in the history of South Asia. His loss has been incalculable.

I had been looking for a good book describing what it was really like to sail on fully rigged Ships for a long time, and this may be the best book I have found so far. I have read everything from "Two Years before Mast" to the recently published "Flying Cloud", but this is really what I was looking for. It seems that most accounts of sailing the large Ships commercially were not written in the Age of the Clipper, but in the Age of the Windjammer, i.e. from the 1890's until the 1940's. The Book is exactly what the title says it is: First hand accounts by professional sailors, officers, passengers, apprentices and others, in the final days of Sail. These have been put together very well into the form of a Journey beginning at a Port in the U.S. or the U.K. and going first to Australia, then South America, and finally rounding Cape Horn for the return journey. The editing has been done by a Veteran Sailor who clearly knows his sources, and has done an excellent job in selecting them. There are also 21 good photographs, a glossary, and a Bibliography of the sources of the narratives and a list for further reading for those who need more.

If you like to read about this sort of thing, like I do, It's absolutely gripping reading, not only because of the subject-matter, but because it's all true. The hardships endured by the sailors, through storms, tough work, loneliness, bad pay, terrible food, etc. is incredible to read about, especially when you take into account their tone in which they write about their experiences. They do not whine, lament and complain. Instead, the tone is matter of fact, nostalgic, respectful, and often humorous. You really get a feel for what it was really like, and I suppose that most readers after reading this will be happy to do their sailing from an armchair, in front of the fire, book in hand.

Whilst researching the history of Namibia, I stumbled upon this wonderful book by David Lush. In it, his observations of Namibians and their quest for freedom are written in easily understood and comprehended language. His eyewitness accounts of life in Africa's last colony were amazing for their detail and amount. There are few secondary-source books with this amount of information on contemporary culture in Namibia and how Namibians struggled along the long path towards independence.
The black and white photographs are a little blurry, but also convey the feelings of the text.
Thank you, Mr. Lush, for writing this important book that everyone interested in contemporary Africa should read.

The book is a collection of letters written by the author to his wife who died from radiation sickness after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The letters detail the author's experiences as he wandered the city and pieced together what happened to family and friends. It is a very powerful book.

Are you enthralled by Hornblower? Does Sabatini make your heart sing. Do you live to see Errol Flynn swing onto a foes ship? Well if you do get ready for a healty dose of reality with LIFE BEFORE THE MAST.

Most of the naratives in this book are written seamen or ratings (with the occasional Nelson & Porter thrown in) they give the real story behind a life both boring and terror filled.

This book gives the readers the story they've never heard, from the press gangs to the laundry this book tell it as it was.

It is fine history written by ordinary men facing life as they knew it before the mast. Can't recommend it enough.

No one will try to prove that all the elements of Marinus's Life of Proclus are facts, but this isn't how we should approach this work anyway, much like Porphyry's Life of Plotinus. Its value is twofold: on one hand, it's a fascinating narrative depicting a deeply ascetic, pious and philosophical life at a time when pagan philosophers had to fight to keep their schools and traditions alive; on the other, it's an highly informative document about the period. It covers a wide variety of topics as to how platonism evolved in late Antiquity, including a classification of virtues that differs slightly from Plotinus's (physical, moral, political, purificatory, theoretic and theurgic), theology as the culminating science (and Plato as a theologian), the study of Aristotle's work as a preparation for the study of Plato's, the extreme importance of Orphism and the Chaldean oracles and the relations between neoplatonic philosophers and Christians. This edition also includes five hymns written by Proclus and a bibliography of his works (including those that are lost). This book is essential for those interested in the history of platonism.