Shadows of the Empire: Planets Guide (Star Wars RPG)

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Shadows of the Empire: Planets Guide (Star Wars RPG)

Manufacturer: West End Games, Inc.
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ASIN: 0874312841

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This book is a comprehensive look at various issues which are at the forefront of the information revolution: computers and privacy, censorship on the net, protection of intellectual property, encryption policy, computer crime, and the risks associated with unexpected computer failures. Sara Baase does a good job of balancing these controversies with various points of view, and offering perspective and solutions. Although this book is meant for academic use, it's extremely accessible.

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This book explores social, legal, philosophical, ethical, political, constitutional and economic implications of computing from a computer scientist's point of view. It covers the issues individuals face as members of a technological society and offers guidance for professionals in computer-related fields. One of the book's goals is to develop computer professionals who understand the implications of what they create and how it fits into society at large. Chapter topics cover privacy and personal information, encryption and interception of communications, freedom of speech in cyberspace, intellectual property, computer crime, computers and work, broader issues on the impact and control of computers, and professional ethics and responsibilities. For programmers and software engineers.

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This book leaves a lot to be desired........2006-03-04

This book is an incredible waste of time to read. If you must, I recommend briefly scanning the topic sentence of each paragraph. The book is tedious because Baase attempts to wring every idea possible from the subject material, whether it is significant or not. She does this because:

1. The book would only be 50 pages if all of the fluffy hand-holding were removed.

2. None of the ideas presented in the book are original or exciting, and must be trumped up with a lot of "high level" discussion. You know it well; it's the kind that only career academics would enjoy.

3. She has to dilute the terrible writing and editing that went into the book. I particularly enjoy this gem:

"A subsequent version of the product, known as Windows NT, a high-end system that incorporated networking technology and allowed users to link PCs together."

The only thing I like more than paying for common knowledge is paying for sentences that lack a predicate.

2 stars for an uninspired money-grab.

satisfied.......2005-10-13

very satisfied with this purchase. didn't take long for item to ship and looked as good as new.

Excellent textbook, unexpectedly thought-provoking.......2005-09-08

This was used as my text book for a graduate level ethics course. I read it cover to cover and found to be well-organized, informative and enlightening. Highly recommended.

very exciting and thought provoking.......2004-01-27

it's a great book to begin in-class discussions

Interesting and Accessible.......2002-08-15

Because the author's ethics class at SDSU uses this text as a primary source, I may be a bit biased in my judgment of this book. For the class, it was an excellent reference, bringing up interesting points for discussion and showcasing these points with anecdotes -- some humorous, some downright frightening. Baase's writing style is accessible to a wide audience, and even the parts that, by virtue of being part of a textbook, are dry and only mildly interesting are digestible.

If you're looking for a book that will give you a general overview of problems associated with computing, this book will hit the spot. Without any noticable bias, it provides information from different perspectives, and even gives fair treatment to Luddites.

A good, solid choice.

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The Badlands

The "Indian" in our US culture's background

Introduction to the Native-American Shaman

Gift of Power

One Of the Greatest books I ahve ever read.

Gift of Power: The Life and Teachings of a Lakota Medicine Man
Chief Archie Fire Lame Deer , and Richard Erdoes
Manufacturer: Bear & Company
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ASIN: 1879181126
Release Date: 1992-10-01

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Gift of Power is a classic story of one man's journey through alienation and struggle to epiphany and redemption. Archie Fire Lame Deer embodies the Native American struggle for survival in a homeland that has become foreign. In vivid first- person narrative, Lame Deer recalls his tumultuous life in a stereotypical Indian world of bottles, feathers, and horses. After enough booze and fighting to kill an average man, he transcends his self-destructive tendencies by reclaiming the spiritual elements of his traditional culture. We learn along with Lame Deer the power and secrets of native medicine and the gifts that they bring to the beholder. This Lakota medicine man is a teacher and a model.

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With surprising candor, Archie Fire Lame Deer describes the magic and power of the Native American spirit life. Archie's compelling narrative recaptures his boyhood years under the tutelage of his medicine-man grandfather on a South Dakota farm. We follow him from Catholic school runaway to Army misfit, from bartender to boozer, from Hollywood stuntman to chief rattlesnake catcher of the state of South Dakota. And we exult with him when he comes home to the world of spirit.

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The Badlands.......2007-05-25

Growing up nurtured in the many faces and realities of nature - and the beauties & dangers therein - provided a school of knowledge for Archie Fire Lame Deer. Along side of this, were the brutalities and horrors of another type of school; this school sought to shame, beat, and abuse the native spirit out of him. This place was one of the many much written about Christian Indian Schools. Within both settings were men who set examples for Archie of humans who realized they had to do nothing else but provide him with acceptance and kindness: his grandfather and a priest at the Indian School. Archie was sent to this school by his Grandfather for the knowledge to be gained there. Grandfather was a Shaman;he knew that Archie would be one someday,too. I think the real reason he sent him to that school was to expose him - first hand - to the ugliest parts of human nature that he knew about. Archie going to Indian School was tantamount to hurricane Katrina being stopped by the frivolous levy systems in New Orleans. Despite all this violence, Archie was able to learn...the kindly Priest at the school was there, right on time, to provide support when Archie needed it most. After freeing himself from this place, his journey was soaked by alcohol. It accompanied Archie everywhere: with lots of women; in lots of fights; in just as many jail cells. It then took him to Hollywood where he became a stuntman. Under all of this was his calling as a healer and a Shaman: this is a terrifying calling. The physical and emotional demands are overwhelming. Here are the facts: only someone willing to throw away, time and again, friends, relatives, jobs, and opportunites is fit for such a job. It seems that such a person would be a narcissist; on the contrary, this kind of person walks with death and loss every day. They have no ego; they have no feelings. We have called them sociopaths. The difference between a sociopath and someone who grabs THE GIFT OF POWER is simple; the former dies or goes insane, while the latter somehow recognizes the destruction in him/herself - and in the wake they cast - as only another possession to be tossed aside. Then that empty hole is filled with the GIFT OF POWER. Archie's natural Father died. In this dying he passed the gift on to his son. Archie was born and raised in the Badlands; but other lands were just as bad. There is beauty in the Badlands...you just have to recognize it. This book should be on all required reading lists.

The "Indian" in our US culture's background.......2007-01-11

If you like me, before I read this book, are naive to what true American Indian culture is all about (or maybe you won't realize how naive you are until you read the book), then this biography of Archie Fire Lame Deer, a Lakota Indian is definitely an excellent crash course to bring you up to date! Much of American Indian culture, especially their religion and intense beliefs about people, animals and our earth make a lot of sense to me. So many suppressed or simply not understood parts of this culture are clearly explained and described in fascinating detail. Though I don't plan to change my personal Christian beliefs, I'm moved by the depth and intensity of this culture; Archie Fire's descriptions moved me to intense shame regarding the many horrible things that were, and are still being done in the name of Christianity to this culturally rich, intelligent, colorful and generally peaceful people (Archie Fire Lame Deer, somewhat similarly, also expresses his shame of so many false medicine men promoting Indian religion & culture). And we claim to be a free country guaranteeing freedom of religion? As has become apparent to me, so many things that we believe to be a part of our white North American cultures are actually rooted in American Indian tradition. I say thanks very much to Archie Fire for recording this valuable, enlightening information for we, the unindoctrinated. I wish him and the American Indian people the realization of all of the wonderful dreams described here (as I wish to share in them also).

Introduction to the Native-American Shaman.......2006-11-10

This is a first-person account of the life of a "medicine man," or Native-American shaman. The style is personal and engaging. This is a good introduction to the topic for the novice.

Gift of Power.......2006-11-10

This book was totally amazing. Written in Archie Lame Deer's own words. Archie really takes us deep into the Lakota culture and brings us into the world of American Indian life. The style in which Archie teaches instills in the reader the importance of laughter to the American Indian people as a way of dealing with the horror dealt by the government and settlers throughout history.

One Of the Greatest books I ahve ever read........1999-03-06

Lame deer pulls no punches and tellyou how it was and how it is. I wish I could have met him in person. He teachings are carried on through others that he has taught.

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Loved it!
Gift of Fire
An excellent page turner every time I read Gift of Fire.
Doesn't stand on its own
Great book!

Gift of Fire
Jayne Ann Krentz
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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Loved it!.......2001-03-10

I just finished reading Gift of Fire and Gift of Gold. Jayne Ann Krentz is amazing. Not only do I love her sex scenes but her imagination re: paranormal phenomenon is amazing. What a woman!!

Gift of Fire.......2000-04-24

An excellent book. I read Gift of Gold first and hoped there would be more about the characters. Thankfully there was. All of her books I reread often and this is one of my favorites. I really enjoy the paranormal aspects of this book. I do not loan any of her books (under any of her pseudonyms)out.

An excellent page turner every time I read Gift of Fire........1999-03-18

Verity and Jonas are wonderful characters. This sequel continues with more interesting dialogue and suspense. The historical facts intertwined with the romance make this book a spell-binding read every time. Jayne Ann Krentz has the ability to weave a story that transports you into the book to watch the scene. I highly recommend both Gift of Fire and Gift of Gold

Doesn't stand on its own.......1999-02-22

Until I searched for Gift of Fire in order to review it, I only suspected that it had been a sequel. I figured that Jonas and Verity had been secondary characters in Gift of Gold that Ms. Krentz made the protagonists of Gift of Fire. Only now do I know that they were the hero and heroine of Gift of Gold as well.

Gift of Fire was exciting and intriguing, and I really enjoyed Jonas and Verity. However, since I didn't know for sure if the book was a sequel, I was annoyed by not fully understanding Jonas' and Verity's past history. I continually felt like I was missing something from their past that might have bearing on the present mystery. I kept waiting for an explanation of what had happened between Jonas and Verity before the book opened.

A cardinal rule of sequels is that they must be able to stand on their own as novels should the reader not have read the first book. Nora Roberts is a master of this. Her trilogies and Sacred Sins and Brazen Virtue all are capable of standing on their own. Especially pertinent to Gift of Fire's failure to stand by itself as the continuing story of Jonas and Verity, Nora Roberts' In Death books as J. D. Robb are the continuing story of Roarke and Eve Dallas, and all stand on their own without leaving the reader needing to have read the previous books in order to understand the one she's currently reading. Previous books' plot surprises are not spoiled, but neither does the reader feel she's lost the thread of the storyline.

Gift of Fire does not stand on its own, and while it was a very entertaining novel, it also left me frustrated.

Great book!.......1998-08-28

I read the two books (Gift of Gold and Gift of Fire) in the wrong order. I loved Gift of Fire so much, I had to go back and purchase Gift of Gold. Both are excellent!

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About the Vocation of teaching
Simply the most elegant, witty, moving book on teaching...
Simple, elegant beliefs in a readable language
Real Learning
And how are you raising your child?

Gift Of Fire (Common Reader Editions)
Richard Mitchell
Manufacturer: Akadine Press
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ASIN: 1888173947

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Twenty-odd years ago, Richard Mitchell, a professor at New Jersey's Glassboro State College, set out on a quixotic pursuit: the rescue of the English language and the minds of those attached to the world by it. Donning cape and mask as “The Underground Grammarian,” Mitchell sallied forth upon his newsletter against the nonsense being spoken, written, and, indeed, encouraged by the educational establishment. (“One thing led to another,” as he tells it, “a front page piece in The Wall Street Journal, a proÞle in Time, and other such. Before it was over, The Underground Grammarian came to be, in the world of desktop printing, the Þrst publication to have subscribers on every continent except Antarctica.”) What began as a vivid catalog of ignorance and inanity in the written work of professional educators and their hapless students soon became an enterprise of most noble moment: an investigation, via mordant wit and Þerce intelligence, of “what we might usefully decide to mean by `education.'” The results of Mitchell's inquiries are as stimulating today as they were when Þrst articulated. His project remains a telling explication of how, through writing, we discover thought and make knowledge. It is certainly the most drolly entertaining.

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I have habitually imagined - guessed'' might be the more honest word - that Reason is high, very high, a lofty and distant realm where matters of the greatest import'' dwell, and where mighty minds move among them. And accordingly, I have supposed Unreason, a complete irrationality, as low as Reason is high, the very pit, the abyss, the frozen floor of hell.

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About the Vocation of teaching.......2007-06-10

This brilliant, passionate book is a plea to teachers to act with integrity and humility. Mitchell understands the power and responsibility of those who have a true vocation to teach, which is as important a vocation as that of the religious person. Anyone who wants to understand what separates hack teachers from those with a gift and vocation should read this book. Of course, hack teachers would never consider reading a book that might improve their abilities, so, like so many things, this will be preaching to the choir.

Simply the most elegant, witty, moving book on teaching..........2004-10-27

... and on learning. Mitchell is hilarious in his other three books, skewering academic writers on their overall pompousness and lack of felicity. But this book should simply be required reading for any adult who believes that an unconsidered life is not worth living: he teaches us what good learning should be as well as what good teaching is.

And for $1.99 for the eBook, how can you refuse?
[Hey, Amazon, how is it that I can buy the paperback here in England, but you list it as out of print on your US site?]

Simple, elegant beliefs in a readable language.......2002-06-27

I've never read a book quite like this one. It manages to be scholarly but entertaining, educational but entertaining and . . . well, just plan good, cover to cover.

My favourite portion of the book covers Jesus' confrontation with the teachers of the law concerning a woman found in adultery. The author is straightforward in his approach to the situation and, by not bogging himself down with needless pedagogy and epistemology, shows the simple wisom of Jesus and how it can apply to us.

We all should read this.

Real Learning.......2001-08-16

This book describes real learning. I was moved and shocked by his acknowledgement that any student can become Socretes and that the real purpose of learning is not to develop some obedient dog of a skill, but rather to develop a relationship with a life-long nagging counselor.

I strongly recommend this book- for the clarity and beauty of the prose and for the equal beauty of the ideas. Thinking doesn't get much clearer or more delightful than this.

And how are you raising your child?.......2001-05-09

Imagine you have a child. How will you teach her to live, to find goodness? Well, surprise: you have always had one. How are you answering these questions for your own life?

So asks Mitchell's first book-length foray into outright philosophy. This book is not as humorous as his other ones; it is more disturbing, more unsettling, but still, equally brilliant. Rather than again tackle what bad language and educationist silliness bodes for "society," he makes you consider what your cherished beliefs, assumptions, and actions bode for you personally. And you will finish this book realizing how important it is to be thoughtful-- perhaps more so than from his other books. A masterpiece.

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It Can't Get Any Better Than This

Beautiful, touching Book!

Very thought provoking

An incredible picture book with an ageless message

Pictures in the Fire
Williston Fish
Manufacturer: Laughing Elephant
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0962113190

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This book takes the form of the last will and testament of a man who died a pauper. In it he bequeaths to humanity the things he values‹the simple and good things of this world such as the laughter between parents and children, the glory of play in the fields and woods, the drowsy pleasure of watching a burning hearth, the fresh delight of young love, and the deep joy of reading books. We have illustrated the words with paintings and illustrations.

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It Can't Get Any Better Than This.......2001-12-14

I possess two copies of this book. Each has the same script but different graphics. I think there may be several copies, each featuring different artists. It transcends generations and makes everyone smile.

Beautiful, touching Book!.......2000-10-05

The book is based on a "last will" found by a destitute man. While his thoughts and wishes were written many years ago, they are completely relevant today. The book is touching and endearing with gorgeous illustrations and graphics -- and will make a great gift for people of all ages. It is truly a "keepsake" book!!!

Very thought provoking.......1999-03-02

Puts into perspective the really important legacy we all have

An incredible picture book with an ageless message.......1998-09-28

Pictures in the Fire combines classic pictures and illustrations with the simple last will and testament of a man who died in a Chicago poor house. The author wills the things that belong to all of us; the sky, stars, skating ponds . . . he wills these things to children, lovers, young and old. This book is inspirational and beautiful.

Thorn, Fire and lily: Gardening with God in lent and Easter

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Thorn, Fire and lily: Gardening with God in lent and Easter
Jane Mossendew
Manufacturer: Continuum International Publishing Group
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The Garden is God's - every plant in it has a spiritual significance. Each calls to mind a specific feast, a biblical event, a Saint, a virtue; helps in the remembrance of the past and present grief and joys. Gardening for Easter covers the period from Ash Wednesday to Easter day, and gives proof of the close link between prayer and gardening.

Jane Mossendew explains how the featured plants illuminate Lenten themes including prayer, fasting and almsgiving. There is a plant for every day of the main Lenten liturgy and Easter Sunday.

Includes cultivation notes, history and lore, guidance on appropriate meditation, Bible readings, intercessions and places of spiritual retreat.

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By This Fire: By This Fire
Gloria Gaither
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Legendary songwriter Gloria Gaither takes a nostalgic look at treasured memories made around the hearth, the heart of her family's home. Her poetic language makes this comforting, affirming book read like her songs. You'll remember the warmth and meaningful associations of fireplaces past—or wish for such a place now.

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The Gift of Fire
David Citino
Manufacturer: Univ of Arkansas Pr
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Binding: Hardcover

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Gift of Fire
Jayne Ann Krentz
Manufacturer: Popular Library
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000SKZM1E

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