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Age of Charles Martel, The
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This study of Charles Martel, who was glorified as Savior of Christendom and then vilified as enemy of the Church, the draws on the evidence of strictly contemporary sources to assess his real achievements. The author suggests that during Martel's rise to power he was the beneficiary rather than the agent of social cultural change and demonstrates how recent scholarship has demolished Martel's role in the development of the Feudal system. For those interested in Medieval History. Also available in Hardcover 0-582-06475-9 $79.95.
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Why Mining?
David L. McKay
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ASIN: 1553696883
Release Date: 2006-07-06 |
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Biography of a mining engineer\'s career spans the years of 1948 to 2000. It is a book about mining people met in the pursuit of this profession.
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AMAZING.......2006-08-17
Jeannie Alverson has the abilty to feel the emotions of others and take their pain into herself for different periods of time.And ever since she saved the life of exDEA agent Sam Dundee after he washed up on her private beach nearly dead she's thought of him.
Now after six years he's back to guard Jeannie from a crazed psychic whom she refused to join with. Still feeling guilt and remorse for the death of two people including his unborn child, Sam is determined not to fall under her spell of love which proves inpossible since she is determined to help him overcome his guilt and pain no matter how harmful it could be to her and Sam baby.
A bit much at times --.......2001-10-21
As a child, Jeannie Alverson garnered fame and fortune as a 'healer'; now, as an adult, her skills have been developed as an 'empath'--sharing not just the feelings and emotions of a person with whom she could bond, but also their pain. Because of her weakened physical condition--a holdover from the accident that killed her mother and step-father--she was cherished by her new foster parents, a doctor and his wife in Biloxi, Mississippi.
After seven years of peace for Jeannie, Sam Dundee, a DEA agent on a stake-out is ambushed, shot, and thrown overboard. The tides carry him to Le Bijou Bleu, Jeannie's island hideaway, where she is resting before returning to Biloxi and the school where she works with 'special' children. Grievously injured, it is only because of Jeannie that Sam survives. Knowing he had been set-up, he left the DEA and started his own security service.
The Reverend Maynard Reeves, an egomaniac masquerading as a real Bible-thumper, tries to coerce Jeannie into joining 'forces' with him; when she refuses, he embarks on a modern-day 'witch-hunt' to bring her down. It is this threat that brings Sam back into Jeannie's life, as her bodyguard.
With the cunning of true malevolence, Reeves seems to know her activities almost before Jeannie does, endangering all she holds dear. Unwillingly thrown together for security purposes, Jeannie and Sam soon realize they would rather be together than apart, but where is safety?
Not even the island refuge is safe as a hurricane nearly accomplishes all that the reverend cannot. This could be a story from this morning's newspaper; violence has become so pervasive in our society. GUARDING JEANNIE is the second volume of a trilogy sub-titled "The Protectors." Sam is the kind of bigger-than-life hero that doesn't come along just every day, but it would have been a more enjoyable and believable story had the heroine been less selfish and stubborn, and a good bit more sensible.
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Run, Don't WALK, to Buy This One.......2007-03-03
Walker feels like a real creep, getting turned on by his best friends' daughter, Lindsey. Little does he know that HE'S the reason she broke off her wedding a few years back. When he stood in for the groom at the rehearsal she realized she was more attracted to Walker than to her husband-to-be, so she bailed.
But she's had time to come to grips with her feelings and now knows this is no ordinary case of lust that will go away in time, so Lindsey decides to tempt Walker by being there in the office when he needs help, wearing clothing that's not slutty, but womanly enough that he may come to realize his friends' daughter is no longer shopping in the Winnie the Pooh department at Sears.
While she is trying to get Walker to act on their attraction, Lindsey's father is in the middle of a big old mid-life crisis, running around on her mother. Once Walker and Lindsey get together, he realizes that his feelings for her are NOT a mid-life crisis but a true-blue love. Walker's son and his wife have a baby and there are some "awwww" moments there, but that also makes the elder man wonder if he should tie down a young woman with himself when he is not sure he wants any more kids.
His wife died years ago and he's never married again, which Lindsey believes shows how capable Walker is to commit and remain true to a love. This is a keeper and emotionally rewarding, not to mention an at-times temperature-raising read.
Karen Keast also wrote "One Lavendar Evening" and "Night Spice." Her real name is Sandra Canfield and she also wrote some wonderful books under that name. Check out my other reviews to learn more about those.
Wonderful!!.......2005-02-25
The love story between Walker Carr and Lindsey Ellison was beautiful and breathtaking. He's a friend of her parents and her godfather. But I did not find any ick-factor to this. (But I am partial to older man/younger woman stories.) I fell in love with him myself. He's very conflicted about his feelings for her, but you know he truly loves her and she him. I read it twice in as many days. Break out a cozy blanket and some hot cocoa and enjoy this on a cold or rainy day.
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688(i) Hunter/Killer
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Release Date: 1997-06-25 |
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688 Attack Sub is an exceptionally realistic submarine simulation, designed in large part by former Navy command officers who knew how to include everything but real-life tedium. The creators of this strategy guide maintained the feel of realism beautifully. Open the book and it looks and feels almost like a training manual with briefing documents. Almost, that is, because like the missions themselves all the boredom factors have been removed. The text is concise and clear and just military enough for satisfying role-play. Particularly interesting are the articles on real-life submarine issues that are reflected in the simulation.
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A military simulation with the depth of 688(I) Hunter/Killer is difficult to defeat without inside information. That?s why we created
688(I) Hunter/Killer: The Official Guide. This strategy guide is packed with must know intelligence based on the simulation?s technology and presented in a clear, concise manner. It?s got the practical information you need to successfully complete missions on every level:
Mission Walkthroughs: Point-by-point walkthroughs of every mission in the game, with detailed maps showing the locations, headings, speeds, depths, tactics, and proficiency levels of all friendly and enemy ships, subs, and aircraft.
Game Mechanics: Practical information available only from the designers of 688(I) Hunter/Killer, such as vessel and weapons performance, damage effects, scoring, and AI tendencies.
Strategies and Tactics: Actual U.S. Navy tactics for sensing, tracking targets, maneuvering, hiding, and attacking.
Interviews: Fascinating insight into the minds of 688(I)'s creators.
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informative.......1999-02-16
a nice guide for a game with comes without a manuel. I recommend this to all!
This is the best!.......1999-02-14
After reading this wonderful strategy guide, I think everyone should read it, if you have the game!
Not a very helpful book.......1998-07-14
First, the synopsis above is incorrect, one cannot command an Alfa sub in the game.
This book is a rehash (not a good one at that) of the manual. The only thing original in the book is a complete description of each mission's starting layout, but if you own the game you can learn that easily enough using the mission editor.
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Chronicles Of The Cliffe & South Malling, Ad 688-2003
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CIMOSA: Open System Architecture for CIM (Research Reports Esprit / Project 688/5288. AMICE)
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The efficiency of enterprise operation is seriously constrained by the inability to provide the right information, in the right place, at the righttime. It is still difficult to access information used or produced by different applications, due to the hardware and software incompatibilities of manufacturing and information processing equipment. It is the aim of the ESPRIT project AMICE (European Computer Integrated Manufacturing Architecture) to make the enterprise knowledge base available enterprise-wide. This book reports work carried out in the framework of the ESPRIT project AMICE on CIMOSA (Open System Architecture for Computer Integrated Manufacturing). CIMOSA provides a new approach for enterprise modelling. It is based on a reference architecture for common and consistent enterprise description, a system lifecycle definition focusing on model maintenance and update rather than model creation, and an integrating infrastructure for model engineering and execution that enables enterprise operation control and monitoring in heterogeneous environments. This second edition significantly extends thespecification of CIMOSA in several ways. Constructs for modelling resources and organizational aspects and an extended frameworkfor the integrating infrastructure are presented. A user guide is given for requirements modelling. Case-study examples are used to demonstrate templates for CIMOSA modelling constructs. Finally several AMICE technical reports address specific subjects.
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Daniel Yergin's first prize-winning book, Shattered Peace, was a history of the Cold War. Afterwards the young academic star joined the energy project of the Harvard Business School and wrote the best-seller Energy Future. Following on from there,
The Prize, winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, is a comprehensive history of one of the commodities that powers the world--oil. Founded in the 19th century, the oil industry began producing kerosene for lamps and progressed to gasoline. Huge personal fortunes arose from it, and whole nations sprung out of the power politics of the oil wells. Yergin's fascinating account sweeps from early robber barons like John D. Rockefeller, to the oil crisis of the 1970s, through to the Gulf War.
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Pulitzer Prize Winner -- and Now an Epic PBS Series
The Prize recounts the panoramic history of oil -- and the struggle for wealth power that has always surrounded oil. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men and nations. The Prize is as much a history of the twentieth century as of the oil industry itself. The canvas of this history is enormous -- from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and Operation Desert Storm.
The cast extends from wildcatters and rogues to oil tycoons, and from Winston Churchill and Ibn Saud to George Bush and Saddam Hussein. The definitive work on the subject of oil and a major contribution to understanding our century, The Prize is a book of extraordinary breadth, riveting excitement -- and great importance.
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First to cover the topic, but still a facile book.......2007-09-17
Yergen gets kudos for being the first to cover this topic, but his account (perhaps because it's now outdated) is facile and pro-oil company. Every time the oil companies are thwarted he seems to blame straw men for it: tree huggers, the people that hounded poor misunderstood Tricky Dick Nixon, the Saudi sheiks (best friends of Bush, Cheney, et al). He never turns his gaze on the corruption of the oil companies themselves. We hit peak oil in the U.S. in the 1960s. The oil companies suppressed any attempts since then to find alternative fuels. Now we are up the creek, so to speak, with the Oil Men running the Show. Some "Prize". I'd say it's the booby prize. The best overview of our current fix is Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower.
The Age of Oil.......2007-07-04
We are living in the Age of oil.
World and human civilization have experienced different "ages" such as the Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Gilded Age, and so on. The 20th and 21st Centuries are indeed, the "Oil Age." We are living in it. This book is one of the most informative and relevant books published in recent years, In my opinion. This work by Daniel Yergin was and still is prescient today, in 2007. "The Prize" tells the story of where we are today, and how we got here. It also latently foresees where we're going in the future. The book doesn't tell us - we just know. We're human. This book is so comprehensive and has so much information only a small portion of it can be noted. Below relates to WWII, and former Iranian leader Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh.
"The Prize" proceeds chronologically. And within the chapters there are numerous mini-subtitles for sub-chapters that connect the big picture. The bibliography and index are excellent and can be used to tie in different figures and historical occurrences. The 'history of oil' is actually the history of the world: humankind, business, innovations, globalization, war, and geo-political power-plays. The very survival of a nation-state is based upon oil.
"The Prize" begins with tiny puddles of black, sticky, goo, in Pennsylvania in the mid 1800s. Locals collected this goo and realized its many uses. In 1859 oil was struck. Almost immediately, the wealth and power amassed from possession and control of oil was realized. The initial trust acts in the U.S. are related to the oil industry, in which Barons quickly gained gargantuan amounts of wealth and political power.
Enter WWII:
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor because of oil. Japanese conquests throughout South-East Asia and the Pacific were motivated not only by the quest for dominance but for securing oil and keeping their oil (fuel) supply lines open. Without supply lines of oil, the war machine would completely break down, as it later did (Chapter 8).
The Americans sacrificed a lot, but Japan in large part lost WWII because of its lack of fuel for planes, ships, and ground forces. Domestically, the Japanese economy collapsed because of its inability to import oil. The Kamikazes were brought into existence after the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Philippines, in 1944. Lack of oil meant lack of fighter plane fuel. Fuel supplies became so low they actually stopped training Japanese pilots at all. Pilots were ordered to "follow the leader" to the attack site because they didn't even have navigation training.
There was even an "Oil Czar" In the U.S. during World War II in PAW, the Petroleum Administration for War. The Oil Czar was Harold Ickes.
In the European Theater's Eastern Front Germany invaded Russia with Operation Barbarossa mostly to get the oil in the Caucuses (In addition to "lebensraum" and "untermensch" beliefs). In addition, a needed land-route to Iron Ore in Scandinavia via the Baltic SSR Republics was a factor. Hitler also began making synthetic oil because without enough of it Germany's war machine, domestic economy, and arms production were doomed. These synthetic oil factories were top targets in Allied bombing missions.
Oil and the Cold War World:
The Soviets dominated Eastern Europe and exerted its influence after WWII for 45 years because the Allies ran out of gasoline. When the British 3rd Army and U.S. 1st Army were advancing eastward toward Berlin chasing demoralized, retreating, and broken German troops in disarray. But because of the lack of gasoline for the Allied Armies, a million people ended up losing their lives and war was prolonged because the Germans were able to retreat and re-organize (page 388).
If someone says "it's not about the oil" today in 2007, tell them to read this book. Oil encompasses almost all things in our daily lives, whether we are are conscious of it, or not.
Oil, Military, and Economic Interests:
Democratically elected governments are overthrown by foreign governments because of oil. In 1953 Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh was democratically elected in Iran. He was an anti-communist. He didn't like the 93% to 7% profit sharing split with a British Oil company operating inside Iran. He changed it to 50-50. The CIA sponsored a coup to overthrow him. Americans were repeatedly told by the U.S. media that Mossadegh was a communist and communist sympathizer, although factually untrue. The American public believed this propaganda, according to poll results. Gullible? Mossadegh was ousted and the Shah was placed in power. Democracy has never been supported in the Middle East and it isn't now by the U.S. government. Also see the Carter Doctrine of 1980.
Most of us as individual consumers literally need oil to function. Dependence upon oil is for the continuation of the nation-state, its military machines, and domestic economy. More critical today, is that nation-states need a *sufficient* supply of it.
This is a positive book. It's a history book.
We're in the heart of the "Oil Age."
Amaze.......2007-06-19
This book is the better form to say what means the oil in the world. The history is well clear end real. There are many important information and who is curious or needs to know the subject this is a perfect one.
It's interesting to know the past to forecast the future..........2007-06-14
I really appreciated Daniel YERGIN's book.
The history of oil is crucial to try to solve the huge demand for future oil. History tells us that oil is limitless in virgin deserts...
The Prize : The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power.......2007-06-12
Excellent, well chronicled book showing the inside of the oil world history. Amazon shipment was a slick execution which makes the book more valuable..This book is a must-have for oil and gas pros.
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Part I - 14 tapes, 21 hours. A Pulitzer Prize winner about oil, money and power in the twentieth century. Fascinating and necessary reading for our time.
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History of Oil and the Drive for Technology.......2000-06-16
This book is one of the best for enlightening those of the the 1970's forwrd of the preferred interests of their mothers and fathers. Ex- President Bush is heavily documented in his actions with those of the Middle Est in his attempts at acquiring a chunk of the oil industry. It highlights South America's Venezuela and its failing oil fields. It shows the world's efforts at unity for one major purpose. It defines OPEC and ARAMCO as they need to be understood. For anyone not current on world issue, this is the book to read.
History of Oil and the Drive for Technology.......2000-06-16
This book is one of the best for enlightening those of the the 1970's forwrd of the preferred interests of their mothers and fathers. Ex- President Bush is heavily documented in his actions with those of the Middle Est in his attempts at acquiring a chunk of the oil industry. It highlights South America's Venezuela and its failing oil fields. It shows the world's efforts at unity for one major purpose. It defines OPEC and ARAMCO as they need to be understood. For anyone not current on world issue, this is the book to read.
An excellent primer on petroleum.......1997-08-14
This book explains how oil affects our lives, our nation, the world's economy and political situations. Yergin's writing style is superb, and although the material is somewhat dry, he really brings events to life. This work is rare for non-fiction - it is easy reading and informative. I have just finished the book a few minutes ago, and I really feel that I have learned a great deal. My favorite section was on World War II. I have read hundreds of books on the subject, but the section in "The Prize" dedicated to the War from a petroleum standpoint is superb
Truly a classic text. Fascinating and enlightening........1996-11-27
Yergin's grasp of the broad view of the history of oil and its context in world history is amazing. Scholarly and yet as compelling as the best fiction, this book is a masterful work
Truly enlightening!.......1996-10-10
This piece of non-fiction is more exciting than FICTION novels
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A Pulitzer Prize winner about oil, money and power in the twentieth century.
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A Pulitzer Prize winner about oil, money and power in the twentieth century.
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The Story of Gasoline
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