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What's better than a group of your best friends piled in for a road trip? Take them all along for the journey we call life, complete with the ultimate guide book.
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For the Modern Girls.......2007-03-19
Ok, gather your girlfriends and sit down together and go through this book! You will laugh out loud, nod your heads in agreement, and learn a ton in the process! I can't recommend this book enough! Whether you are a "Bible Study Scholar" or a "Bible Study reject" it will set you on fire to study God's Word in a whole new way.
No more dull, sit around and stare at each other Bible Study groups!
AMEN JEN!
Refreshing Author!!!.......2006-08-28
Jennifer Hatmaker has proved once again that she is a refreshing author on a timeless subject. She has openend my eyes to see God's word in a whole new wonderful light. I highly recommend this great book!
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The Mogao grottoes in China, situated near the oasis town of Dunhuang on the fabled Silk Road, constitute one of the world's most significant sites of Buddhist art. In some five hundred caves carved into rock cliffs at the edge of the Gobi desert are preserved one thousand years of exquisite
murals and sculpture. Mogao, founded by Buddhist monks as an isolated monastery in the late fourth century, evolved into an artistic and spiritual center whose renown extended from the Chinese capital to the far western kingdoms of the Silk Road. Among its treasures are miles of stunning wall
paintings, more than two thousand statues, magnificent works on silk and paper, and thousands of ancient manuscripts, such as sutras, poems, and prayer sheets, which in 1900 were found sealed in one of the caves and then dispersed to museums throughout the world.
Illustrated in color throughout, Cave Temples of Mogao combines lavish photographs of the caves and their art with the fascinating history of Mogao, Dunhuang, and the Silk Road to create a vivid portrait of this remarkable site. Chapters discuss the development of the cave temples, the iconography
of the wall paintings, and the extraordinary story of the rare manuscripts, including the oldest printed book in existence, a ninth-century copy of the Diamond Sutra. The book also describes the long-term collaboration between the Getty Conservation Institute and Chinese authorities in conservation
projects at Mogao as well as the caves and the museum that can be visited today. The publication of this book coincides with the centenary of the discovery of the manuscripts in the Library Cave.
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The Engine That Could: Seventy-Five Years of Values-Driven Change at Cummins Engine Company
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The Diesel Odyssey of Clessie Cummins
ASIN: 0875846130 |
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The rise of Cummins Engine Company from a tiny Indiana machine shop to one of the world's leading producers of diesel engines is a story rich with lessons for today's managers. By responding to challenges familiar to all American manufacturers with a tough competitive stance and a uniquely people-centered philosophy, Cummins has carved out a distinctive position in the international industrial landscape. From its early days with charismatic founder Clessie Cummins to its continued proud independence in an age of hostile takeovers, Cummins has done business with confidence and creativity. This vivid book depicts the tough choices--often with enormous consequences--that must be made by successful managers.
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Incomplete.......2006-03-03
Book itself is very informative, however there is a problem with representation of it being passed off as "new". First copy came without a dust jacket, hard cover had corner bumps and scuffs. Replacement copy came the exact same way, in the same condition and without the DJ. Cost of book is $50.00 NEW, had we wanted the book in used condition without the original DJ, we would have ordered it as such. The minimal refund Amazon offered was not to our satisfaction and the reps and/or management are too busy to make personal contact with their business customers. There appears to be an internal problem with receiving/quality inspection of their supplier's goods.
Well written, interesting book.......1998-07-08
Yes, I have also read Diesel's Engine by Lyle Cummins, the youngest son of Clessie Cummins, the co-founder of Cummins Engine. If, in reading DE, I am a proven crazy person, then I am, so discount what I say next. If one is fascinated by diesel engines, then this is a "must read." I have not completed the book yet, but having read 300 or so pages and I must say there is much beyond the engines. If you are a Harvard Business Review type, this will have much for you about entrepreneurism, the family business, enterprise capitalization, growth, corporate strategy, the inventor and his role in a technology driven business, timliness, single business small town employers, transportation trends, product quality, employee relations and more. I like reading about successes, but feel like this book portrays an almost charmed life of something impossible to duplicate. If every corporation were as successful as Cummins is portrayed, then we would reach corporate nirvana. Can what has been written here be true? Buy the book, write your own review, and we'll see what you think.
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Nationalism is a movement and a state of mind that brings together national identity, consciousness, and collectivities. It accomplished the great transformation from the old order to modernity; it placed imagination above production, distribution, and exchange; and it altered the nature of power over people and territories that shapes and directs the social and political world. A five-country study that spans five hundred years, this historically oriented work in sociology bids well to replace all previous works on the subject. The theme, simple yet complex, suggests that England was the front-runner, with its earliest sense of selfconscious nationalism and its pragmatic ways; it utilized existing institutions while transforming itself. The Americans followed, with no formed institutions to impede them. France, Germany, and Russia took the same, now marked, path, modifying nationalism in the process.
Nationalism/title> is based on empirical data in four languages--legal documents; period dictionaries; memoirs; correspondence; literary works; theological, political, and philosophical writings; biographies; statistics; and histories. Nowhere else is the complex interaction of structural, cultural, and psychological factors so thoroughly explained. Nowhere else are concepts like identity, anomie, and elites brought so refreshingly to life.
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Ressentiment and the Transvaluation of Values.......2002-10-01
Perhaps one of the most accessible and complete book relating to European nationalism I have had the pleasure to read. Greenfeld examines nationalism as it moves from nation to nation changing as it moves along. As a point of methodology, she asks three questions: [1] Why and how nationalism emerged? [2] Why and how it was transformed in the process from one society to another? [3] Why and how these different forms of national identity and consciousness translated into institutional practices and patterns of culture, molding the social and political structures of societies which defined themselves as nations? How she deals with it is the really fascinating part of this book. Greenfeld explores nationalism along 2 broad categorical dimensions: popular sovereignty and criteria of membership. For the most part, and educated middle class (as in England and Germany) or the nobility (as in France and Russia) tried to solve a crisis of identity as well as acute feelings of "status inconsistency" in times of drastic changes in the social structure and status hierarchy. This identity crisis of the upwardly mobile social groups gave birth to a conception of England as a community of "free" and "equal" individuals having recourse to political participation. From England the notion of the "nation" changed in form as it moved from country to country coming full circle in the United States where it took its original form.
The core of Greenfeld's narration of the metamorphosis of the ideologies -- actually its development is the idea that, German intellectuals lacked the support and recognition of the nobility. The extreme financial and social insecurity German intellectuals felt led them to lose faith in the Aufklarung (Enlightenment) and to embrace a Pietist ontology (coupled with, lest we forget, a secularized Romanticism) which within its precepts held the seeds of racism and authoritarianism. Moreover, the concept of "ressentiment" as Nietzsche used it "On the Genealogy of Morality" (also available on Amazon.com) What is this "ressentiment"? Essentially, it is a notion of existential envy. Envy towards those economically or militarily more powerful countries that resulted (again in the Nietzschean sense) a "transvaluation of values" attached to the borrowed concept of national identity or an outright rejection of these values and the glorification of what one sees as his/her "indigenous" culture. Greenfeld really effects a wonderful analysis of the internal dynamics and the quid-pro-quo connection between the structures, the culture and the individual's psychology. More on this issue, she shows how elites in particular countries -- England, France and Russia evolved national identities the in turn shaped their own "place" or social status as well as aims, goals and hopes. From Greenfeld's perspective the elites formed their idea of society and later transferred it down, in its original form, to the rest of society. As far as this reader is concerned, it is not clear why national identity has such an intense role when it came to the rise of Nazism and the Russian revolution but not the particular form of American racism?
Returning to the issue of ressentiment, Greenfeld argues that the specific groups invented nationalism in the fight for recognition (as I mentioned above) and used it as an umbrella concept for national identity, consciousness and recognition. The French and Russian cases are unique in that nationalism gave each case a unique basis for status and self esteem. The American case is different from the process it took in Europe but comes close to the English experience. In the case of America, Americans fought for liberal democracy or for what Greenfeld articulates as "Civic Nationalism." However, in all cases, the creation of national identity really involved redefining what was meant by "the people." Breaking it down further, she breaks down the evolution of nationalism to categories: there is the individualistic-libertarian (UK and US) and the collectivist-authoritarian (France, Germany and Russia). German nationalism, according to Greenfeld, is the epitome of ethnic authoritarian collectivism. Greenfeld is great because she discusses the role language and literature play in the creation of national identity. Moreover, she examines how religion and secularism; war and revolution; intellectuals and education factor in the process of national identity. Her interdisciplinary approach is really admirable considering the size of the project. Her use of Max Weber -- as in how particular groups or strata which are facing a threat to their status or status identity makes Weber accessible and understandable. The details relating to each and every example are too much for this review, and I strongly suggest a careful read. I give her a resounding 5 stars.
Miguel Llora
An important work on a critical subject.......1997-11-22
Professor Greenfeld has compiled an exhaustively researched series of "case studies" of the genesis of nationalist sentiment (England, France, Russia, Germany, and the United States). She puts forth very convincing arguments that (1) nationalism began in England, and spread to the European continent, (2) the self-loathing of segments of certain societies led to a transformation of their values, resulting in nationalism, and (3) that nationalism lay the basis for modernity. My only complaint, if it can be called that, is that she does not more extensively examine American nationalism. I highly, highly recommend this book for any student of nationalism.
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Five Roads to Death (Linford Mystery Library)
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Phil Llewellin is an award-winning writer whose adventures have enthralled readers of leading magazines and newspapers worldwide. His two million motoring miles - in everything from modern and classic cars to powerful American trucks - have taken him to wild places like Afghanistan, China, Tobago, Sudan, Alaska and Borneo. He has been to the end of the world's southernmost road in Tierra del Fuego and, of course, to Muckle Flugga, the northernmost point of the British Isles, arriving there on the longest day of the year. Here he chronicles some of the most exciting journeys.
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New York City 5 Borough Atlas: Laminated (Hagstrom New York City Five Borough Atlas (Laminated))
Hagstrom Map Company
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Bring back the hand drawn Hagstroms!!! This is inaccurate!!.......2004-09-11
Isn't the purpose of a map to tell you how to get from point A to point B?? Well don't count of this new computerized Hagstrom version too much... unless you've got some kind of magic car.
I don't want you to think I am exaggerating. So I am going to enumerate the mistakes I found in two neighborhoods that I have lived in, Washington Heights (181st St area) and Riverdale (Kappock St area).
Washington Heights / W. 181st St.
* Pinehurst Ave between 181st St and W. 183rd St: don't try driving down this street. It's a set of stairs. Check the old Hagstrom (COH)!
* 187th St. between Overlook Terrace and Fort Washington Avenue: that's a longer set of stairs. Look out. (Old Haggy got this wrong also.)
* Mess of entrance/exit ramps just south of 181st St at Cabrini: don't even try to figure these out without going back to your old Hagstrom. Traffic flow directional arrows, people!! And don't try to get onto the ramp from that 179th St entrance...
* Chittenden Avenue: uh... most of what is shown as here as Chittenden is actually woods. COH
* And the best... Riverside Drive shown north of 181st St... IT DOESN'T EXIST!! What there actually is is an entrance ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway... an entrance that is not shown here!!
Riverdale at Kappock St.
* 227th from Netherland to Johnson Ave: doesn't exist.
* Independence from Palisades to Kappock: not shown, DOES exist.
* Palisades from Bradley Terrace (doesn't exist) to, well, Palisades Ave: not shown, DOES exist.
* Henry Hudson Parkway access road south of 232nd St: uh, there's an entrance ramp here. And an exit. They did add some exit numbers but it's pretty damn difficult to tell where you get on and off, and there's at least one entrance/exit shown that doesn't exist.
In short... I can't this book to get me around my own neighborhood. Do you think I am going to rely on this to get me around Brooklyn? Are you nuts??? Hagstrom, what has happened to you?
NYC Taxi Driver Bible (2nd to "How to drive like a Madman"by.......2002-11-21
This is the map book that NYC taxi drivers carry around with them when they need to look up some street they don't quite know where it is located. Sometimes it is used as an excuse when they are taking you on the 'scenic route' around town before charging you triple what is supposed to cost to go from destination A to B, but I digress. This atlas is excellent, and shows every street in every borough of New York; Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. There is little in the way of tourist
attractions, and landmarks, so tourists may not find this atlas too useful, except as an accurate road map around town. There are several versions of this excellent atlas. The spiral bound pocket version is the smallest, and smaller does not mean tinier maps; it means the full-sized maps are cut smaller to fit into this book resulting in more pages to scroll through. Pages are laminated so you can simply wipe pages clean should you spill coffee on them. rkchin. more map reviews at http://www.nychinatown.org/bookstore/index6.html
the nyc taxi driver reference.......2002-11-20
This is the driving bible that NYC taxi drivers carry around with them when they need to look up some street they don't quite know where it is located. Sometimes it is used as an excuse when they are taking you on the 'scenic route' around town before charging you triple what is supposed to cost to go from destination A to B, but I digress. This atlas is excellent, and shows every street in every borough of New York; Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. There is little in the way of tourist attractions, and landmarks, so tourists may not find this atlas too useful, except as an accurate road map around town. There are several versions of this excellent atlas. The spiral bound pocket version is the smallest, and smaller does not mean tinier maps; it means the full-sized maps are cut smaller to fit into this book resulting in more pages to scroll through. Pages are laminated so you can simply wipe pages clean should you spill coffee on them.
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A Spur Award-winning author
"Orphans of the North," in Will Henry's words, is a story in which "you will meet no purely instinctive, so-called dumb animals, but only those sensitive wilderness folk who are able, in their mysterious unknown ways, to think and to feel and to communicate with one another, very much as you and I." "Medicine Road" is a story from the time of the mountain men. Jesse Callahan was raised by the Miniconjou Sioux. He now works for Jim Bridger who has a string of trading posts in southern Wyoming Territory. Brigham Young, leader of the Mormons, has sworn to wipe out Bridger's trading posts, and he has chosen Watonga, Black Coyote, of the Arapahoes to lead the onslaught. Jesse falls in love with Lacey O'Mara, a married mother of two children. The guns and ammunition that Jesse is transporting to the trading fort at Green River are what Watonga wants most. This is a tense story of calculating courage, intense and dramatic action, and grim realism told with a native feel for the characters and the wilderness in which they play out their fates.
Henry Wilson Allen wrote under both the Clay Fisher and Will Henry bylines.
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Comeback Season: How I Learned to Play the Game of Love
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ASIN: 0814326358 |
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Despite beautiful landscapes and bountiful harvests, farming is hard work and always has been. The Great Depression in rural America, which began in the 1920s and lasted until World War II, made it still harder. At a time when tractors were replacing horses and the family farm was giving way to the large, single-crop enterprise, the struggle to survive and modernize in a period of economic scarcity was especially sharp. In A Good Day's Work, Dwight Hoover, who grew up on an Iowa farm in this era, recalls the events of day-to-day life on a single farm, offering detailed descriptions of daily work in each of the year's four seasons. A Good Day's Work is a fascinating if grim reminder of what it was like to be a child with adult responsibilities. Mr. Hoover's unusual memoir recalls the rough edges as well as the happy moments of rural life. It is an honest re-creation of a world that was vanishing.
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Boring.......2007-10-10
This memoir was written by a college professor and it reads just like it. I have read a few memoirs that took place during the Depression and all of them managed to inject a sense of fun and humor in spite of the hard work and difficulties. This one is written with scrupulous detail but is just plain boring.
Lorraine Haven
A Good Day's Read.......2007-07-27
Although Mr. Hoover's book evoked no memories for me (I was born and raised in Chicago), I was completely absorbed and enchanted. He brings alive a different time and place so vividly that he carries his reader there with his descriptions and stories. Although he apparently means this book as a gift to his grandsons, it is equally a gift to all of us who can get lost in its pages!
An interesting farm history.......2007-07-20
A Good Day's Work Dwight W. Hoover
This book brought back many memories for me of visiting my older sister living on a farm in Indiana during the fifties. I also loved to hear my mother telling stories of growing up on a farm in Indiana in the early 1900's. There is much about farm life described by the author that is similar over these decades. He describes the hard work, the co-operation, family bond and the community spirit that seems to me to be a common thread throughout farm life. This book caused me to think about the family values and personal ethics that are less a part of our lives today as not only farming but other occupations have changed in the United States. The hard work, long days and financial uncertainty remain for those family farmers trying to continue the traditional way of farming in the mid-west. The author shares the right amount of antidotal stories that causes the reader to feel he/she knows this farm family. Sharing their experiences through the writing of one of the members of the Hoover family makes this book a joy to read.
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