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Having just read a 1957 copy of this book, it is absolutely amazing how much American life back then is still so applicable today. Dr. Peale's words of wisdom are skillfully set out by experience and example, personal and otherwise. Many of the characters identified in the book are still living. Dr. Peale candidly offers healthy, inspirational and spiritual techniques to heal the wounds of everyday living with class and resolve leaving the reader to truly feel that life is not a problem, but rather that life is a solution.

If you want to make your life happier and a better place to live in you are on the search of a right book that'll make you relax and teach you to be confident of yourself on every turn of life. A soothing book that suggests you remedies to relieve tension and stress. Life brings along with it all types of ups and downs which make you happy as well as sad so to overcome your sadness this book will be the greatest guide with the best examples from your day to day life. DO TRY IT.

Stay Alive All Of Your Life is absolutely a must have book. It gives guidelines on how to enjoy each moment of every day . It is written in simple english so that it is easy to understand. It lets us know that life can be fun and exciting, no matter what the world problems are. A wonderful book!!

Dr. Peale starts out reminding us that Jesus said He came to give us life and to give it more abundantly! (See John 10:10). From that Scripture he goes on to tell us that "You can do no more than you believe you can." Actions begin with the seed of belief. This book is designed to plant the right seeds of belief within its readers.

Faith enables an individual to get in harmony with God. It is through trusting Him that the supernatural is manifested. He emphasizes this point by encouraging us to continually fill our minds with possibility thoughts. Replace doubt with expectancy.

A familiar theme that he drives home in this book and other works is that what you visualize in your mind is produced in the physical dimension. Consider the statement he makes on faith and results when he says, "Think big, and powerful forces are released." Planning for inspiration is essential to the achiever's lifestyle. "Travel, music, art, stimulating friends, and good books contribute to inspirational living," he reminds us.

Some profound thoughts on God's perfect timing are also included. We're reminded of the need to synchronize our timing with His, and that as Christians He lives in us.

Dr. Peale is a master at communicating truth from the Bible. His teachings on how to apply eternal principles is as effective now as ever. Read this book and apply it and you will attain the satisfaction of a life well lived.

This book is an excellent resource if you review medical record documentation for any reason. I use it all the time as a nurse and a coding/compliance auditor. Everyone in my department has their own copy. It is a necessary tool in the industry.

Overall, I find Stedmans's is the best abbreviation book available. It is comprehensive and is easy to use. It gives multiple listings for each abbrevation. Don't struggle trying to read charts, buy yourself a copy!

This reference book is invaluable. It is easy to use and layed out in dictionary form. I found everything I needed to look up. Once again, another outstanding Stedman Word book!

Not only do we refer to "Stedman's Abbreviations, Acronymns & Symbols" in our own daily work as medical transcriptionists, we also recommend it to the thousands of MTs who visit our web site at medword.com every day. This book is always in our list of Top 10 Sellers.

The language of medicine is filled with unique words and phrases with new ones being added regularly. Abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols are also used extensively. This book is important for any medical transcriptionist to own since a number of abbreviations in the field of medicine may mean different things depending upon the physician's area of specialization. This book will help you identify which abbreviation or acronym best applies for the specialty you are transcribing.

We heartily recommend it with 5 Stars and consider it a "Must-Have" medical reference book for a medical transcriptionist.

Not only do we refer to "Stedman's Abbreviations, Acronymns & Symbols" in our own daily work as medical transcriptionists, we also recommend it to the thousands of MTs who visit our web site at medword.com every day. This book is always in our list of Top 10 Sellers.

The language of medicine is filled with unique words and phrases with new ones being added regularly. Abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols are also used extensively. This book is important for any medical transcriptionist to own since a number of abbreviations in the field of medicine may mean different things depending upon the physician's area of specialization. This book will help you identify which abbreviation or acronym best applies for the specialty you are transcribing.

We heartily recommend it with 5 Stars and consider it a "Must-Have" medical reference book for a medical transcriptionist.

Good source book for finding out what our corporate media doesn't tell us. The focus is on three pariah states-- North Korea, Yugoslavia and Zimbabwe. If you take usual reportage at face value, you probably think these countries amount to charnel houses run by madmen and populated by fanatics. I may exaggerate, but not much.

What the book tells is the other side of the story, the one we never get to hear. Thus, Elich presents an in-depth profile of North Korea's stance on nuclear power,. Corporate media usually portrays their negotiations as irrational, at best, or bomb-happy, at worst. Actually, once the picture is filled in, Pyongyang's contributions to the seemingly endless rounds of multilateral talks become quite reasonable and rational. That alone is worth the purchase price, exposing, as it does, Washington's duplicitous game that none in our media dares report.

Similarly, we get a fuller picture of the events leading up to NATO's criminal invasion of Yugoslavia. The air bombardment proceeded, of course, under the guise of protecting Albanians from Serbian genocide. The KLA's provocative role is either ignored or minimized. Frankly, this story has been told better in other sources-- Parenti, for one. However, we do get considerable anecdotal accounts of Serbian suffering at the hands of the KLA, a key aspect minimized in Western reporting. Nonetheless, this section is the book's weakest.

Zimbabwe's inclusion is timely. Britain and the US are again turning up the heat in an effort to topple the stubbornly independent Mugabe regime. The book details the brutal economic warfare that has been waged against this former British colony over the last several decades. It also debunks and/or explains the many myths surrounding the controversial project of land reform, the cornerstone of Zimbabwe's economic democratization. It's important that the country's story gets out since southeastern Africa is a neglected region, particularly vulnerable to Western subversion.

Of course, what these countries all have in common is a state-run economy resistant to unchecked foreign investment. That alone is enough to get them on Washington's hit list as corporate America reaches for unchallenged global supremacy. The objective is clear-- all holdouts, big or little, must be stamped out in the name of "democracy" and "free markets". What's more, It's not difficult to invent cosmetic reasons when you've got a compliant communications industry to back you up (think Iraq). That's why a work like this is so important. Sure, it's got flaws-- a sometimes repetitive text, for one. But it does detail an important and largely untold story. The overriding point here and elsewhere is that Americans can still approximate the truth as long as the margins continue to be tolerated.

I have never read a book that educated me in such a plain and detailed way about the means and methods of Western imperialism. Mr. Elich, the author cuts right through all the theoretical discourse one could have on such subjects and gets straight to the concrete information a person needs in order to know how hegemonic power works in the current world order. Also, the fact that this book touches on a diverse array of examples/places within major areas of the world is also fantastic. Elich does so with meticulous research and intriguing literary style. This book is a demonstration of major insight by Mr. Elich to focus on some of the most misunderstood places in the world, on exactly those things that are most misunderstood about them, and how the powers that be systematically generate these misunderstandings. The title is completely fitting. Now Iam always recommending it anytime and anywthere i get the chance, Strange Liberators; Militarism, Mayhem and the Pursuit of Profit!

I was particularly impressed by Mr. Elich's exploration of Western perfidy in the dismantlement of Yugoslavia and its campaign to bring non-aligned Zimbabwe to its knees. His defense of the struggle to preserve socialist Yugoslavia and of Zimbabwe's program of equitable land distribution are powerfully documented and keenly argued. Mr. Elich is clearly a man of the left, and his book challenges misperceptions of important issues where the fate of entire peoples are in the balance.

Martin Luther King noted in 1967 that the Vietnamese people `must see Americans as strange liberators'. In this brilliant and deeply-researched book, investigative journalist Gregory Elich shows how the US state has not changed its spots. He proves this by analysing its actions against Iraq, North Korea, Yugoslavia and Zimbabwe.

The US state promotes the `free market' across the world. Elich shows how Honduras, Bangladesh and China, among all too many others, compete in a race to the bottom, each forcing workers to work 14-hour days, 7 days a week.

The US state has committed many war crimes in Iraq, including the organised looting of Iraq's cultural heritage, sponsored by the `American Council for Cultural Policy', a group of dealers and collectors which opposes `retentionist' laws on the export of antiquities.

In 1993 the US state declared that it was retargeting many of its nuclear missiles from the Soviet Union to the DPRK. William Perry, Clinton's Defense Secretary, admitted that he "spent much of the first half of 1994 preparing for war on the Korean peninsula."

After the 1994 Agreement between the USA and the DPRK, the US state broke every single one of its pledges - to provide a light water reactor by 2003, to abandon its aggressive nuclear posture, to recognise the DPRK, to end its embargo of the DPRK's trade, investment and credit, and to provide substitute energy. The European Parliament as usual backed the US state by voting to cancel its contribution to the energy project.

NATO forcibly devolved the multi-ethnic state of Yugoslavia, carving it up into small, easily-controlled mono-ethnic puppet states, while claiming to defend multi-ethnicity against the Serbs! The US state backed the secessionists. It supported the KLA terrorists. In the first eight months of the NATO occupation, the KLA expelled 350,000 people from Kosovo. NATO created a Kosovo Police Force, composed almost entirely of ex-KLA soldiers, and a Kosovo Protection Corps, which, the UN pointed out, pursued "criminal activities - killings, ill-treatment/torture, illegal policing, abuse of authority, intimidation, breaches of political neutrality and hate-speech."

The US state also supported Croatia's 1991 secessionist war, when its forces expelled Serb civilians and, unreported in the West's media, tortured and killed their prisoners, for example at Camp Lora in Split.

In Zimbabwe in 2002, just 4,500 white farmers still owned 70% of the land. So the government stepped up land reform and ended the IMF's Structural Adjustment Program. In response, Bush, Blair, the IMF, NATO, the EU, and `Non-Governmental Organisations' funded by NATO and EU governments, organised a campaign of sanctions, covert operations, political interference and propaganda lies against Zimbabwe's government.

Yet this government proved popular with the people of Zimbabwe: in 2002 Robert Mugabe won the Presidential elections yet again, by 400,000 votes, in an election the South African Observer Team called legitimate. Then his party ZANU-PF won 2005's parliamentary and Senate elections, elections also deemed fair by independent observers. Mugabe drily noted, "There was no democracy here, no human rights at all until the people of Zimbabwe decided to fight."

Never have I read a better book on the topic. J.C. covers it exactly how it was. Today is so different - spam mail and myspace and RSS feeds, etc...

This book gets my nostalgic every time I pick it up and read it. Yes, that first review was me, "PunkaPixie" almost 10 years ago. I just had to write another review (don't know if its allowed), but THIS BOOK DESERVES TO HAVE ANOTHER FIVE STAR REVIEW!!!!! Why oh why is it being shunned to the bargain bin!?!?! LONG LIVE THIS BOOK! And bless the heart of Ms. J.C. Herz who one day, long ago, back when I wrote this review, had written me an e-mail which is buried somewhere in a text file. Wherever she may be, I wish her well!

Long live the days of IRC and usenet... oh how I miss it so.

I am staring at my copy of this book right now actually. Still proudly displayed in my bookcase. This book has always and will always be close to my heart. At 25 years of age now, I will never forget the good old days when the internet was a wee baby - long before it was tainted with the things that "could be".

This is a great book for anyone curious to know what life was like before the "mass influx" of people on the 'Net. And an even better companion for those who long to remember.

This book should be supplied to all users of the web. It gives one of the best views of an addicts use to the medium. From the first tentative steps, all the way through to over load! The author MUST be praised for her writing, and content.

A DEFINATE MUST!

I read this book 2 years ago, when I borrowed it from the library. Since I have borrowed many, many times. It never gets boring. It provides a look on the net when the most commercial stuff was mlm scams and chainletters. *sigh* The good ol' days...

Oh my gosh, when i found this book in the "new book" section over 2 years ago at my library I thought it was cool fer the cover.

Then I read it.. oh my GOSH never ever have I ever read a book I agreed with SOOOO MUCH. The whole time I was reading about the little net adventures of J.C. Herz, I was smiling because I too have done it.. the usenet postings, the late night IRC excursions as well as the inevitable dip into MUD.

This book is great for anyone of the "olden" days of the online world. And for those vets.. feast yur eyes on the MindVox section.

Despite I have great experience in other fields, I don't have it in power electronics. I found this book very original and didactic. I gess that his author has a big experience in this matter and hi has also the experience to transmit it. Written in a easy way to understant with a lot of tables, figures and equations, all the subjects are treated very deeply. I think is an useful book for any designer that must deal with power electronics.

I have a lot of switching power supply books but this one is by far the best. The author talks to you like a real person not like a computational robot. He speaks as if he really wants you to learn about switching power supplies not just to show you how much he knows. You can tell that he is very fond of this subject and he wants to share it with you. There are plenty of examples and a FAQ section; yes the math is there as well. You can clear you shelves of all the other books because this is the only one you will need.

I have been trying to find a book that explains in simple text how a feedback loop control works. There are two books that I find useful. One is this book and the other one is 'Practical Design for power supply.' In this book, the author went through close/open loop analysis, compensation network, current mode control, etc. He used a lot of pictorial explaination, which is great, as I don't like to read words :) Also it has a good chapter on switching power lose.

The only draw back that I found is the language used. Sometime I will get confused and have to go back and read it a few times. But other then that, I think you will find this book pretty helpful. Enjoy.

Dear Reader

If you are Power Engineer/ IC Engineer / Applications Engineer entrying the field of Power Electronics, or someone who wants needs to re-educate in the field of power electronics I strongly urge you to keep a copy of this text on your desk.

The author has spent many years gathering precious gems which only exist in the realms of universities or so called experts not willing to share the pitfalls of power design. He and has written the material that anyone who wants a good grasp of power electronics will easily gain.

His chapter on stability is definitely worth its weight in gold. Such topics from the various classic textbooks either suffer the formulae syndrome, or basically the cookbook either leaving the reader, confused or tell me more syndrome. He even explains how the Laplace transform is used without having to go into lengthy math analyis, wow. It took me years to learn this.

This book is written in a straight forward manner you have to go through it chapter by chapter to gain the reap the full benefits.

I wish I had this book many years ago, I could have avoided a lot painful hours of debugging power circuitry.

THIS REFERENCE BOOK IS ONE OF THE BEST I HAVE EVER USED IN MY DAILY WORK AS A MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTIONIST. I FIND IT VERY USEFUL EACH DAY.

This is a very good reference, but needs to be more current. As a medical transcriptionist, I find the most useful feature to be the clear, detailed anatomic diagrams and word lists that are included in each surgical area (general, ortho, oto, etc.) The general overview of each surgical type is also helpful. However, the surgical techniques, drugs lists, and equipment lists are very outdated. Still, I use this book in my work on an almost-daily basis.

THIS REFERENCE OF OVER 1000 PAGES IS THE BEST I HAVE EVER USED TO TRANSCRIBE SURGICAL REPORTS.

I was introduced to this most comprehennsive reference as a student in a local college. Ihave used it since to train surgical transcriptionists with excellentresults. I can developa competent secretary in 6 weeks using this book. Nothing onthe market rivals it! BARRY MANN NY,NY

This book has so much vitually important information for the employee going through a worker's comp situation. It covers all from the begining to the end. THIS BOOK WILL GIVE YOU THE KNOWLEDGE NEEDED TO FIGHT FOR YOUR LAWFUL RIGHTS -- DO NOT GIVE IN OR GIVE UP -- WITH THIS BOOK YOU WILL UNDERSTAND AND REALIZE THAT THE FIGHTERS ARE THE ONES THAT RECEIVE WHAT IS RIGHTFULLY/LAWFULLY INTITLED TO THEN.

KEEP FIGHTING AND BELIEVING THAT 'JUSTIFICATION FOR EMPLOYEER'S WRONG DOING CAN BE ACHIEVED.

READ THIS BOOK AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND!!!

As a Workers' Compensation practitioner, this is the book that I recommend to all the aquaintances that ask for free advice. I also tend to recommend it to large companies that operate in CA and other states, because it gives the law and requirements in terms that a high school graduate can understand.

There is more emphasis in this book on answers and "by the number" processes than legal precedent or analysis, which I find easier to follow for the lay person. Chris Ball also has a number of forms included with simple completion directions.

If someone is looking for an overview with more legal justification or reference to statutes, the California Workers' Compensation Handbook is an excellent choice. This book by Stanford Herlick is updated every year, and has shorter sections with less hand-holding.

I think that the Herlick paperback is the reference source of choice for the attorney or paralegal to carry in the car or briefcase for quick review of issues and solutions.

I bought this book when I was first injured after getting so frustrated at not being able to get answers to my questions anywhere else. I searched the internet, talked to people, but I just kept going in circles. Then I discovered this book. It saved me. I have since hired a lawyer, however, you will feel more empowered and in control if you understand the process and the terminology. Plus, insurance companies try to "get away" with some things, assuming the average person won't know their workers comp rights. This book has saved me several times in that instance. (For example, they made doctor's appointments for me, sent me the info on their legal letterhead saying I was required to go to that particular doctor. Since I knew my rights from reading the book, I challenged them and didn't have to go to their doctor. Basically, I think they try these tactics just because most people aren't informed, and will just do what they say) It's so important to understand what is happening with your case, and what your rights are. I've been injured for four years, and find I research something in this book at least once a week. If you have a workers comp injury, you shouldn't be without this book! (Also, Nolo puts out a great book on filing for social security disability too) Best of luck to you!

The average consumer has no idea of the laws and the rights he has when faced with an on the job injury.

This book is easy to read and understand. I am a nurse case manager for workers comp injuries and found this book extremely helpful. I encourage all my clients to obtain this book even if they have a lawyer. It gives them a solid knowledge base when the docs, attorneys and insurance people are throwing terms around.

It is well organized and follows a normal sequence of events. It was written by an attorney who handles workers comp cases.

I highly recommend this book.

An old fashioned story with old fashioned charm. Makes you long for an era that is lost to children of this day and age. Simple and sweet.

A great book for younger readers and those with smaller children. The art is superb too!
Sincerely,
A.A. Riley
Author of The Key of Aramath

Tasha Tudor is classic. I am so thrilled to have purchased this book for my "bookworm" daughter - I purchased this charming book through Tasha's own web page and had it signed by Tasha...however it cost me LOTS more than what the price is listed here - this adorable Easter tale which is beautifully illustrated is one to add to your child's library....The Easter Bunny will be leaving it on Easter for my little girl...and surely it will be a special added treasure to her collection.

My daughters received this book for Easter and it is definitely MY favorite Easter book - it just took my breath away. Incredibly sweet and old-fashioned; no chocolate or hype. Just the essentials of this lovely Springtime holiday - new dresses, adorable baby animals, gentle little children and some colored eggs. I am enchanted and thrilled to have found Tasha Tudor. You will love her!

This is a great book for anyone seriously studying Taiji as a martial art. It's a collection of articles on the history, various styles, principles and weapons of Taijiquan. There is information on some lesser known facets as well, such as the 2-man fighting set, free fighting, and Taiji whip, and there are articles by William CC Chen, Doc Fai Wong, Chen Xiao Wang, Jane Hallander and others. My only complaint is that they waste ~75 pages showing the Yang long form--as the rest of this book covers some very advanced subjects, and is NOT a "how to" guide for beginners. If they had filled those pages with more articles of the same quality as those in the rest of the book, I'd give it five stars.

This is one of the most concise, and complete histories, and "how to do it" books on Tai Chi that I have ever read! The photos of the person performing the different moves in the Yang form of Tai Chi are excellent! Any Tai Chi student should have this one in his library!

This volume is a compilation of the various article in the aforementioned magazine. The variety of authours creates a wide viewpoint of the physical and metaphysical theories. The history is thurough and informative, the philisophical theory is highly accesible while still being vivid and accurate, and the still photos of the Yang style set are a gift to readers interested in the practice. Being a follower of the Taoist philosophy and a student of the higher martial disiplines this book remains a favorite of mine second only to Bruce Lee's legendary work "The Tao of Jeet Kune Do".

This is a collection of 29 articles on different topics in tai chi. The is range of subjects is quite diverse, from tai chi history to theory and practical applications, and even an article on tai chi in the National Football League. There are four main sections: Histories and Traditions; Basic Techniques: Advanced Techniques; and Profiles and Personalities; and there is also an Appendix showing practical spplications. Last but not least, there is a complete pictorial presentation of the entire yang form that is practically worth the price of the book by itself.

The articles cover just about every aspect of tai chi, and I also noted there are several articles on the chen family style, reflecting the increasing interest in this style in recent years. It is a style especially known for its chin na and martial applications, and have always wanted to study it because of that, since my first tai chi style, known as the "square wu style," because it atypically contains both linear and circular movements, is especially rich in chin na applications too, but I've never had the opportunity to study the chen style yet myself, being mainly a wu and yang style practitioner, but I am pleased to see the chen style finally getting some of the recognition it deserves.

About the only lack in terms of coverage in the book is on pressure point strikes and dim mak. Many people aren't aware that tai claims to be the original dim mak technique and that originally there were no "pushing" techniques in tai chi, or pushing hands exercises, it consisted only of potentially deadly pressure point strikes, the severity of which only depended on how hard the point was struck. But as this knowledge is perhaps the only remaining area in tai chi that remains closely guarded I wouldn't expect it to get discussed in a book like this. But overall the book contains a lot of good information on tai chi, and is the only book in this format that I know of on the subject, with articles by so many recognized experts.

Since we're on the subject, I wanted to say a little more about the dim mak. Although I value tai chi as the most physically profound and difficult of the martial arts I've studied (and I hold instructor and/or black belt rank in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean systems), one has to take the Chinese medical theories of chi and meridians and pressure points mainly as descriptive analyses for further scientific analysis. To give you an example, my first kung-fu and tai chi instructor would occasionally say that a certain point was more vulnerable in the afternoon. Well, being a polite student (and his senior student) I never contradicted him on this, but this is now 25 years later and now I'm the teacher. The simple fact is that almost any pressure point strike could have a greater effect later in the afternoon than in the morning since that's when many people reach their physiological low during the day, and things like blood sugar and circulating catecholamines (such as epinephrine and norepinephrine) reach their lowest points and people just don't have as much energy. Furthermore, neuroactive chemicals that can cause drowsiness build up in certain areas of the brain. Finally, the brain, which can only digest glucose, is sensitive to a drop in glucose blood levels. All of this means that presure point and dim mak strikes could potentially have a greater effect at this point in a person's diurnal physiological cycle, but the ancients who devised these theories had no knowledge of blood chemistry, neurobiology, or any other modern medical science area.

That having been said, I still regard tai chi as the most complex, difficult, and profound system of martial culture I've ever studied, and getting back to the present book, this is a fine volume on tai with a lot of good information that should be of interest to beginning and advanced students alike.

I'm so glad we have the reader reviews on Amazon. The Publishers Weekly evaluations are often very biased and dismissive. "Though another book criticizing the Bush presidency is of questionable necessity" - really? We've reached the limit on books examining and critiquing the performance of the President of the United States? Thanks, PW! I'll stop worrying about the health of our democracy and go straight to bed.

The authors documents how the Bush Administration, in an effort to fight terrorism, has side-stepped the constitution, circumvented the Geneva Convention, and broken countless other laws. The authors describe how the net result is an erosion of the moral character of America, which, in the long run, is counterproductive in the war on terror.

Benjamin Franklin, when asked what type of government we had created, is said to have replied, "A republic, if you can keep it." "Unchecked and Unbalanced" shows why America is in danger of being transformed into a monarchy by the Bush Administration, reporting how this new theory of unchecked presidential power developed and why it is wrong. The authors also contend that the theory is not a response to 9/11, but long nurtured by Cheney and his assistant David Addington from at least the days of the Iran-Contra investigation, and even followed (to a much lesser extent) by Bill Clinton.

Executive branch lawyers now describe an ongoing (not just emergency) power to set aside legal checks imposed by Congress and to even act when Congress is silent. This authority extends to treaties as well, and at least one Office of Legal Council (OLC) leader claims coverage of judicial decisions as well.

Lincoln acted early on at the start of the Civil war without Congressional authorization, and even ignored an order by the Chief Justice. The difference between Lincoln and Bush is that Lincoln did not do so on an on-going basis, sought subsequent approval, and did not act in secret.

"Unchecked and Unbalanced" provides rationale for concluding that OLC's conclusions are wrong; it also asserts that the OLC claims were developed without adherence to professional obligations - eg. they failed to identify, let alone respond to, weaknesses in their legal arguments, and failed to mention key Supreme Court cases.

Finally, to protect our republic, the authors recommend Congress hold hearings and act, and that the Supreme Court follow suit. Unfortunately this is made difficult by executive branch supervision of intelligence gathering and distribution.

Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr. is senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and a partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He was chief counsel to the Church Committee. Aziz Z. Huq is associate counsel at the Brennan Center and previously clerked for the U.S. Supreme Court. This is a book you will not be able to put down, in which they demonstrate and document how the Bush administration has gone further than Nixon or Reagan ever dreamed to create a monarchical presidency with the acquiescence of a complicit Congress and a cowed judiciary.