Spare Parts: From Campus to Combat: A Marine Reservist's Journey from Campus to Combat in 38 Days

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Long the stuff of historical, literary, and cinematic legend, the United States Marine Corps maintains arguably the most fervent cult of devotion of any branch of the Armed Services. Yet despite the colorful Corps traditions and clichés that have long since become a part of American culture, the crucial human dimensions of what drives a man to become a Marine have remained largely unexplored. Buzz Williams bravely stakes out his turf in this insightful memoir of his years as a Marine reservist and tour of duty in the first Gulf War of 1991.

Inspired by the USMC service of an older brother who died a tragic, early death, Williams' initial attraction to the Corps is almost cult-like in its intensity (his adopted nickname stems from the close-cropped military haircut he'd worn since childhood). As a way to balance his drive for service with the desire for a college education, Williams joined the USMC Reserves, and quickly found himself a second-class citizen in his cherished institution--when the Marines' "Green Machine" breaks down, they call for "Spare Parts," the Corps' derogatory term for reservists. But, when Iraq invaded Kuwait on the eve of his graduation from armor training at Camp Pendleton, new warrior Williams quickly found himself headed inexorably towards desert warfare in which American forces were often their own worst enemy.

What is striking about Williams' tale is its attentive, persistent psychoanalyses of both his fellow warriors and himself--an examination that finds many a conflicted hero with feet of clay. His unflinching observations about a venerable institution hobbled by bureaucracy, recruitment compromises, woefully inadequate training, and a chronic shortage of supplies seem especially timely in light of the contemporary military quagmire in Iraq. Yet through all his doubts and travails, Williams' dedication to the Corps emerges stubbornly Semper Fi. --Jerry McCulley

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A compelling look into the world of reservists--more than just the "spare parts" of our nation's military--as seen through one manís transformation from weekend warrior to combat marine

In 1989, Buzz Williams walked into a marine recruiting office to follow in the footsteps of the deceased older brother he grew up idolizing by signing up to join the Marine Reserves. Over the course of the next year, he would earn money to pay his college tuition by devoting one weekend a month and two full weeks in the summer to the grueling and often dangerous rigors of military training, while enduring the jarring readjustment that occurred each time he returned to civilian life.

But Williams had no idea that even the newest reservists could find themselves on the frontlines of a battlefield in a matter of weeks. On August 2, 1990--the day that he graduated from Light Armored Vehicle School--Saddam Hussein's forces invaded Kuwait, and Williams' life would change forever.

Spare Parts tells the story of Williams' harrowing deployment to the Persian Gulf, where he would be thrust into battle only 38 days after being called up. Enduring both the condescension of full-time Marines and the danger of his limited training, he managed to form a core group that the struggles to gain respect from a military machine that viewed them as mere "spare parts." In gripping, you-are-there detail, Williams brings to life the physical and emotional trials he would face on the killing fields of Kuwait--where some of the woefully underprepared Marines are able to rise to the challenge and others are broken by the horrors of battle.

A powerful portrait of one man's experience in battle--and of the reservists who stand ready to leave civilian life to defend our nation at a moment's notice--SPARE PARTS adds a moving new perspective to the literature of war.

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"A compelling look into the world of reservists--more than just the ""spare parts"" of our nation's military--as seen through one manís transformation from weekend warrior to combat marine In 1989, Buzz Williams walked into a marine recruiting office to follow in the footsteps of the deceased older brother he grew up idolizing by signing up to join the Marine Reserves. Over the course of the next year, he would earn money to pay his college tuition by devoting one weekend a month and two full weeks in the summer to the grueling and often dangerous rigors of military training, while enduring the jarring readjustment that occurred each time he returned to civilian life. But Williams had no idea that even the newest reservists could find themselves on the frontlines of a battlefield in a matter of weeks. On August 2, 1990--the day that he graduated from Light Armored Vehicle School--Saddam Hussein's forces invaded Kuwait, and Williams' life would change forever. Spare Parts tells the story of Williams' harrowing deployment to the Persian Gulf, where he would be thrust into battle only 38 days after being called up. Enduring both the condescension of full-time Marines and the danger of his limited training, he managed to form a core group that the struggles to gain respect from a military machine that viewed them as mere ""spare parts."" In gripping, you-are-there detail, Williams brings to life the physical and emotional trials he would face on the killing fields of Kuwait--where some of the woefully underprepared Marines are able to rise to the challenge and others are broken by the horrors of battle. A powerful portrait of one man's experience in battle--and of the reservists who stand ready to leave civilian life to defend our nation at a moment's notice--SPARE PARTS adds a moving new perspective to the literature of war."

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Excellent Book.......2007-02-09

As a Marine Vietnam vet, who served four years in the regular Marine Corps, and later another six in the reserves, I appreciated Buzz Williams's honesty. Here you will get the good and the bad. He's still a Gung Ho Marine, but he doesn't gloss over the frustrations and SANFUs of military life. Well worth reading.

Robert A. Hall
Author of "The Good Bits."

Serious Page Turner!.......2006-02-09

Buzz Williams has written an impressive and highly readable account detailing his life as a Marine Reservist. Williams is definitely a fantastic writer, and I was totally impressed with his skill to communicate and articulate so well.

The entire book is great, and I especially liked his account of boot-camp and his personal feelings about the Marine Corps. He does an excellent job at portraying emotion and thought. It's funny to hear about some of the dysfunctions and frustrations of the unit, and his reserve life in general. Some of the best writing dealt with the conflict with the Marines in the unit. It's also helpful Williams articulated so well the difficulty of transitioning from Marine to civilian so often.

My brother is a Marine Reservist whose unit has been to Iraq for combat several times, which is probably why I wanted to read the book. I am glad Williams has told his story and updated us so well with his life at the conclusion of his time in the Marines. In conclusion this book is probably the best publication I have read this year and would encourage others to delve into his account.

Excellent .. a very enjoyable book.......2005-05-05

I was pleasantly surprised by this book. I thought the author's writing style was excellent and I was never bored at any point. I really thought it gave a complete picture . . . from Buzz's childhood fantasies of being a marine to his relecting on the experience as a veteran of the '91 gulf war (while watching the recent Iraq war unfold).
I thought Buzz did a good job telling the good, the bad and the ugly of his entire experience. I love that he gave praise where it seems to have been deserved, and chastised the nimrods he met.

Excellent Memoir of Reserve Life.......2005-01-05

Spare Parts is a first-rate book on life in the Marine Corps Reserves as well as life in a modern war environment.

This book intrigued me as I had great interest in joining a military reserve unit. The book is a memoir of Corporal Buzz Williams, a Light Armored Vehicle (LAV) operator/gunner in the Marine Corps Reserves. The book is a thorough summary of Cpl. Williams' experience in the Marine Corps reserves, mostly covering boot camp, MOS training, weekend drills, and deployment in Operation Desert Storm.

The book gives a high level overview of Cpl. Williams' boot camp experience. I found this section neat, but I have seen much more thorough accounts of boot camp in other places. I thought the book really picked up after boot camp. I had found few if any accounts of reservist life and life in modern warfare. Cpl. Williams discusses the experience of MOS training, including the shortcomings of the training the military provided in LAV school. The chapters on the weekend drills I thought were invaluable to a potential reservist. This book is the first place I found an excellent, written account of what a training weekend is like. Finally, the end of the book discussed what life during a modern war is like and what it is like to come home afterward. The writing of Cpl. Williams is frank and discusses both the positives and negatives of military life and military procedures.

The book is a quick and an easy read. I would highly recommend this book to people considering potentially enlisting in the military reserves. The book sheds a sobering light on reservist life that I thought really helped me see the military from another perspective. I would also highly recommend this book to persons interested in military memoirs or life in the military.

Towgunner Chimes In.......2004-12-27

As a member of D Company, during its Desert Storm/Shield deployment, this book brought back a lot of memories, good and bad. I enjoyed it very much and thank Buzz for writing it.

What astounds me is the bashing that Buzz has endured as a result of committing his memories to paper. Obviously some people who weren't portrayed as Chesty Pullers in the book now feel somewhat marginalized. Not everyone was a Force Recon operator guys. We were a reserve company attached to a battalion whose commanding officer didn't really have much time for reservists. We did the best job we could with the equipment we had and in the end we brought everyone home. Not everyone liked everyone else. There were conflicts and politics and everyone will remember it in a different and unique way. Why denigrate a fellow marine simply because his recollection of events does not exactly match yours? I personally don't understand all the uproar from other company members such as the self proclaimed "Delta Marine" among others. Anyone who served in the Corps and spent time at "Leguene" is somewhat suspect in my opinion. Crawl back into Capt P.'s turret. You should've written your own book.

Good job Buzz. It took courage to do this and I commend you. Well written and highly recommended.

S/F
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An urgent and searing exposé of the "peace process" by a prominent Israeli thinker.

The Road Map to Nowhere is a devastating and timely book, essential to understanding the current state of the Israel/Palestine crisis and the propaganda that infects its coverage. Based on analysis of information in the mainstream Israeli media, it argues that the current road map has brought no real progress and that, under cover of diplomatic successes, Israel is using the road map to strengthen its grip on the remaining occupied territories. Exploring the Gaza pullout of 2005, the West Bank wall and the collapse of Israeli democracy, Reinhart examines the gap between myth—the Israeli leadership's public affairs achievement that has led the West to believe that a road map is in fact being implemented—and bitter reality. Not only has nothing fundamentally changed, she argues, but the Palestinians continue to lose more of their land and are pushed into smaller and smaller enclaves, surrounded by the new wall constructed by Sharon.

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Brilliant study showing how to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians.......2007-06-14

Tanya Reinhart was a professor of philosophy at Tel Aviv University until her recent untimely death. This book examines the last four years of Israel's 40-year illegal occupation of Palestine. She shows how, under the pretence of ending its occupation, the Israeli state has reimposed military control of the occupied territories.

Gaza and the West Bank are a system of prisons, sealed enclaves. The Israeli state controls all movements of goods, services and people. It plans to retain control of these enclaves, from the outside, retaining the army's `freedom of action'.

This is in defiance of the two-thirds of the Israeli people who have consistently backed ending the occupation. 100,000-strong demonstrations have demanded, "Leave the Territories - Save the Country."

Reinhart describes the Palestinians' struggle against the illegal Separation Wall, which the Israeli state wants to be its permanent, unilaterally-decided border. The Wall annexes 40% of the West Bank. If completed, it would rob 400,000 Palestinians of their land and livelihoods.

On 25 June 2003, Palestinian organisations, including Hamas, announced that they would cease fire for three months. The Israeli and US governments immediately responded by rejecting the ceasefire and demanding the `dismantling' of Hamas and other organisations; the Israeli army killed two Palestinians, including a woman. After six weeks' ceasefire, the Israeli state resumed its policy of assassinations, killing 14 Hamas leaders in the first half of August 2003. The EU helped by placing Hamas' political leadership on its list of terrorist organisations.

In February 2004, Sharon unveiled his disengagement plan, which was a feint to cover building the Wall. In September 2005, the British Presidency of the EU demanded that the Palestinian Authority rein in the militants, while allowing Israel full freedom of action, saying, "The Presidency recognises Israel's right to act in self-defence." This is the formula that the USA usually employs to back the Israeli state's assassinations policy and aggressions.

In January 2006, Hamas won the elections. Israel, the EU and the USA at once demanded that it recognise Israel, accept all existing agreements and renounce violence. They did not make similar demands of Israel, yet Israel does not recognise Palestine, respect existing agreements or renounce violence.

There is a road to peace, a simple, unilateral solution available to Israel - end the occupation.

Reinhart's Must Read: a Reality Check for US media.......2007-05-18

Reinhart compares and contrasts what we read in the media with the reality on the ground. It is a stunning indictment of western -- and particularly American -- media, as well as an indictment of those who are relentlessly pursuing a genocidal treatment of those whose deeds they covet.

Israel/Palestine in black & white.......2007-03-29

A "must read" book for those interested in an analysis of a complex situation rendered in black & white by a colorblind Ms. Reinhart. The book will give you many reasons to hate Israelis/Jews. If you prefer to learn about the conflict, you may want to read Tom Segev's and Raja Shehadeh's books instead.

The truth about the "peace process".......2007-02-22

Tanya Reinhart's latest book is a worthy successor to her Israel/Palestine: How to end the War of 1948. This is must reading for Americans, especially for those who do not speak or read Hebrew. Prof. Reinhart's searing analysis of Israeli media reveals the full extent of Israel's failure to comply with even the most basic requirements of the "Roadmap", Further, her revelations will be news to anyone who relies on information from the US press, though they are not surprising to those who have witnessed the daily tragedy that is enacted under Israel's Occupation of Palestine. While her analysis is unflinching and therefore not very optimistic, she ends her book on a note of hope. The basis for this hope is the unwavering commitment to reconciliation by some in the Israeli Peace Movement and the dedicated steadfastness of Palestinian communities like Bil'in , who have resisted the Wall and the confiscation of their lands.

The best book on Israel-Palestine current situation.......2007-01-04

Tanya Reinhart's former book: Israel/Palestine - How to End the !948 War, was the best account and analysis of the Oslo Years and the Second Intiphada. The new book, The Road Map to Nowhere, covers the Years 2002-2006, and contributes as no other book, in information, analysis and assesment of the current situation.

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Master Storyteller! (4 1/2 stars!)
A major Wow!
Another Winner
brilliant as usual
THIS BOOK WAS A TOTAL SHOCKER!

Road to Nowhere (reissue)
Christopher Pike
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A Dark And Stormy Night.

Teresa Chafey is running away from home. Driving north along the California coast, she picks up two mysterious hitchhikers: Poppy Corn and Freedom Jack. Together the three of them tell stories: Teresa of her devastating relationship with her boyfriend, Poppy of a sad young woman she once knew, and Freedom of a talented young man with a violent temper.

Yet as they talk, a darker story unfolds around them. A story of life and death, of redemption and damnation. It will be the longest night of Teresa's life.

Maybe the last night of her life.

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Master Storyteller! (4 1/2 stars!).......2006-07-04

The story starts out with Teresa running away with a change of clothing in her overnight bag. She picks up two hitchhikers which she wouldn't normally do. But, there was *something* about them. Coincidentially enough, they are all headed up north. Teresa is not exactly sure where she is going, but she wants to make a new start. As the story unfolds, you find that she is leaving an ex-boyfriend, and ex-friend, and unsupportive parents behind.

As the road stretches out before them, they have no need for "canned entertainment" as Freedom Jack puts it, they can tell stories to each other. He begins to weave the tale of Candy and John, as Poppy Corn sits in back, smoking her cigarette and correcting Free's story at various times.

Teresa feels that these two are connected in some way, but she is not sure how. Brother and sister? Scorned lovers? They reveal much about Candy and John, but little about themselves.

Teresa shares her own story about being the victim of betrayal, but she still holds secrets that she doesn't even know yet.

This page turning story takes place in one night as they head through California and encounter a castle with a fortune teller and a strange church at 5 in the morning where people are wandering around and the mass is in Latin.

Will Teresa find a place to go or is she on a "road to nowhere?"

The story was almost perfect for me. The buildup was amazing as it only took me three hours to read. The ending, though not as exciting as the story and something I saw coming, was still entertaining. I was impressed with Pike's ability to keep me enraptured the entire time.

Highly recommended as one of Pike's best!

A major Wow!.......2006-06-27

Ok, imagine this. Your just found out that your boyfriend is dumping your for your best friend. Your totally pissed so you decided to take off. You pack some clothes, grab some cash, and your gone. Then along the way you meet two peps with totally screwed up names Freedom Jack, and Poppy Corn. you agree to give the hitchhikers a ride. along the way the three of you beging to tell stories. You tell of your boyfriends betrayl, and they tell of a guy and girl they once knew.
Along the way you begin to feel an undeniable attraction for Jack which is finally consummated at his "mother's" House. You then procede to travel on and meet Poppy's "father" the priest. then you continue to drive despite the fact you now feel sick. Then the memories of what else happened that night slowly come back to you, and you relize that your two hitchhikers are not what they seem, that the stories they told are closer to them then you ever relized, and now you are in a battle for your very soul...

Another Winner.......2006-05-26

Life couldn't have been any better. You have a caring, wonderful boyfriend, a awesome job, and a best friend that could have been no more perfect. At least that's how it seemed to Teresa until, she found the truth. Christopher Pike's Road To Nowhere is a book that can keep you guessing for miles. The events take place in the southern part of California on some back roads that hold no traffic. Most of the book it is raining and when it's not raining it still seems like it is. The three main characters are Teresa, Freedom Jack, and Poppy Corn. Teresa is running away from home and picks up two hitchhikers along the way to somewhere she doesn't even know. The three begin to tell stories. Teresa about her past relationship, Freedom of a boy named John and Poppy of a girl named Candy. The story gets deeper and deeper as the flashbacks go on.

Pike puts some hints to the end in the middle and the beginning of the story without actually giving the ending away. What seems to be a mystery soon turns into a horror. The action really doesn't kick in until the second chapter but it is completely worth the wait. Pike knows how to show the emotions of the characters to where he makes you feel the same way. This book makes you want to drop everything else and read until the jaw dropping ending. The twist and turns the book takes are just like road in the story...unpredictable.

I would recommend this to 7th grade and up. I would also recommend some of Pike's other books. Such as The Hollow Skull and Monster. So hop in the car and join the road trip as you let some harmless stories unfold on to your lap.

brilliant as usual.......2006-03-13

Christopher Pike has done it again, His Novels keep you reading untill the very last page, his story lines capture you and you know you just want to find out what happens in the end. Road To Nowhere is yet another one of these books I had to read it all in one sitting. The day it arrived in the mail I started to read and I couldn't put it down... Road To Nowhere rocks!!!

I am sure if any of you love this book you will love his other books the Immortal, Whisper Of Death,The Starlight Crystal, Execution Of Innocence, The Visitor to name a few and The Season Of Passage and The Listeners for Adults also by Christopher pike

THIS BOOK WAS A TOTAL SHOCKER!.......2005-04-06

I am not a fan of Christopher Pike because in most of his books it starts out good and then toward the middle he goes off subject and start talking about Aliens, Monsters and Outter Space. But this time Chis Pike actually STAYED on subject, and this book was out of this world!
The main character Theresa is a run away after finding her boyfriend cheating on her with her best friend. While driving in the rain, Therea spots 2 Hitch Hikers ( Poppy Corn and Freedom Jack) she desides to pick them up (big mistake)... I am not going to tell what else happened in the book because you have to read it yourself.
This book really makes you think about Life after Death, Heaven and Hell and Angels and Devils.

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Excellent, and not just about the Clinton Health Plan
Brilliant Work

The Road to Nowhere
Jacob S. Hacker
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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During the 1992 presidential campaign, health care reform became a hot issue, paving the way for one of the most important yet ill-fated social policy initiatives in American history: Bill Clinton's 1993 proposal for comprehensive coverage under "managed competition." Here Jacob Hacker not only investigates for the first time how managed competition became the president's reform framework, but also illuminates how issues and policies emerge. He follows Clinton's policy ideas from their initial formulation by policy experts through their endorsement by medical industry leaders and politicians to their inclusion--in a new and unexpected form--in the proposal itself. Throughout he explores key questions: Why did health reform become a national issue in the 1990s? Why did Clinton choose managed competition over more familiar options during the 1992 presidential campaign? What effect did this have on the fate of his proposal?

Drawing on records of the President's task force, interviews with a wide range of key policy players, and many other sources, Hacker locates his analysis within the context of current political theories on agenda setting. He concludes that Clinton chose managed competition partly because advocates inside and outside the campaign convinced him that it represented a unique middle road to health care reform. This conviction, Hacker maintains, blinded the president and his allies to the political risks of the approach and hindered the development of an effective strategy for enacting it.

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Excellent, and not just about the Clinton Health Plan.......2006-11-20

This is a terrific and very well-written history of the Clinton health plan debacle. It includes a good precis' of major features of American health policy over a decade or more leading to the Clinton election. One of the key features - and the author is quite explicit - the Clinton plan is used as a case study of how American healthcare politics and the American political agenda in general work. Therefore, it is not just "history" of 1993 - it remains highly insightful and relevant for all of us watching healthcare debates and agendas in 2006, 2007, 2008. If you've read this book, you'll have a lot of "aha" moments that would have escaped you otherwise. And having a perspective so rich through the 1990's gives you a frame of reference for a lot of articles and authors and issues writing right now - most of them lived through the past decade's issues and the decade before. Hacker's most recent book is "The Great Risk Shift" which has gotten good reviews. But "Road to Nowhere" should be better-known and more widely read than it is. The only weakness for me is that he tries to build to a careful analysis of diverse political reasons why the proposal failed - my own non-historian hunch is that a sudden 500-page mysterious bill labeled as developed in secret by "hillary clinton" upending the status quo, was enough to sink it without a dozen subtle collateral reasons....

Brilliant Work.......2002-10-19

What Noam Chomsky is to politics, Jacob Hacker is to American Health Reform in the 1990s. In a concise and readable fashion, Hacker explains why universal health reforms started to spring up - almost form nowhere - to achieve major attention in the early 90s, only to recede into the periphery of political issues today.

Surprise, surprise, it has little to do with principles and everything to do with being a potential winning election issue. Hacker details in depth how Jim Carville and co. used the health issue to give Democratic Senate hopeful Harris Wofford a come-from-behind win, only to gravitate to then Governor Clinton's Presidential bid the following year with a similar strategy. The critical role of the New York Times editorial board in "agenda setting" the issue of "managed competition" (while simultaneously squelching more liberal options like a single payer system), is outlined in detail. What's most striking is Clinton's almost naive belief that, if he proffered a sufficiently "centrist" bill, Republicans would have to negotiate with him. The book clearly details the various actors and how they affected not only Clinton's thinking, but the range of "practical" health reform options.

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"The Rocky Road to Nowhere" is an informal history of the Blue Ridge Railroad in South Carolina (1850-1861). It was to be the last link in an ambitious plan to connect Charleston, SC, with the vast new lands west of the Alleghenies. Included were a series of tunnels--3 in South Carolina, 2 more in Georgia. The longest of these, the unfinished tunnel at Stumphouse Mountain, SC, which would have been more than a mile long, has long been the subject of myth and mystery. Here for the first time is an accurate and entertaining account of what really happened there. The story is a fine mix of heroes and villains, and offers a tantalizing tale of what if's and if only's, which could have made the little German town of Walhalla, the gateway to the west instead of Atlanta! Strong men like John C. Calhoun, Father Francis O'Connell and John Wagener add depth and interest to the tale.

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Illuminations on the Road to Nowhere
Paul Ferrini
Manufacturer: Heartways Press
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A wonderful journey into what life was like way back when

Back on Nowhere Road
Frances Vanlandingham
Manufacturer: Parkway Publishers
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Frances VanLandingham grew up in a Tennessee community called Poga that is near North Carolina border. She lived on a mountain road called Nowhere road. VanLandingham, who grew up in an environment in which girls' education was not encouraged, went on to complete college education and work as a teacher for a number of years. In her retirement, she returns to her roots on Nowhere Road.

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A wonderful journey into what life was like way back when.......2005-07-19

Fran's book is a wonderful, down-home recollection of what life was like growing up during the Depression. You will feel like you've been sitting on the front porch with her, listening to her stories. She depicts rural mountain life without sappiness or silliness... it's just a good read.

The Books of Magic IV: The Road to Nowhere

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The Books of Magic IV: The Road to Nowhere

Manufacturer: DC Comics
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Car Wars: Battles on the Road to Nowhere

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Car Wars: Battles on the Road to Nowhere
Chris Mosey
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ASIN: 1901250407

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Traces the turbulent history and analyses the future of the car. Over 50% of polluting emissions come from road vehicles - as traffic levels increase, leading to gridlock in major cities, Car Wars shows that solutions do exist, but political and corporate will is seriously lacking. Examines the role of direct action groups. Questions the environmental policy of western countries.

Christopher Pike Set Die Softly & Road to Nowhere & The Eternal Enemy

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Christopher Pike Set Die Softly & Road to Nowhere & The Eternal Enemy
Christopher Pike
Manufacturer: Archway
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ASIN: B000XBDW74

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Set of Christopher Pike books including Die Softly (248 pages), Road to Nowhere (212 pages), and The Eternal Enemy (180 pages).

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