Oliver Books

My son and I have read the first 3 books in the Hank Zipzer series together. We enjoyed each one, especially the underlying theme of hope for children who learn differently. This fourth book, was the turning point where my son actually is reading the book alone. If I could contact Mr. Winkler I would like to thank him for being such a great role model for kids who are bright and creative but have difficulties in areas that the rest of us take for granted. The print is large and the vocabulary is not overwhelming yet the stories are fun and meaningful for the tween age group. We can't wait for the 5th book to come out in May 2004.

My son enjoys the entire Hank Zipzer series. He struggles with learning disabilities as Hank does, and enjoys the creative ways that Hank tries to get around them. My son also admires Hank's sense of humor and his loyal friends, Frankie and Ashley. And who wouldn't want a grandpa like Papa Pete?

If your family of origin is dysfunctional, this book and these Steps will be balm
for your troubled soul. Time and again when we read and review a chapter
in our 12-Step "Double Winners" group, participants comment on the amazing
insights the authors have into our very core -- and that this recognition is an
an utterly valid password for trust in this 12-Step process of recovery for children
of dysfunction.

When I first flipped through this book, these pictures of cans of coke, watermelon, birdcage, walls full of graffiti's and car wrecks followed by pages without numeration containing explanatory comments written in big bold letters really surprised me. Each reproduction seems to be a piece of a surrealistic scenery. Unfortunately, it is not fictional. This kind of surrealism is part of the Israelis and Palestinians' real life. These items that at first sight appear benign because they belong to our daily environment might actually hide a bomb made by a warrior who fights with asymmetrical means against the so-called "occupation policy" applied by Israel. With these pictures, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin want to demonstrate how the metastases of war invade each organic fiber of the society. The book starts with the unveiling of the existence of a fake military town called Chicago built in the middle of the Negev desert where, as they write: "Everything that happened, happened here first, in rehearsal". All wars led and to be led by Israel in the future are being practiced in Chicago. From the pictures we can deduct that, though artificial and phantasmagoric, this town has a lot in common with the territories destined to be occupied by Israel. It is therefore not neutral that the book begins with a description of this ghost town that expresses only desolation.
As a matter of fact, in that region, war is omnipresent, tangible. It is particularly observable in the architectural structure of the occupied territories. But the worst is that the phenomenon of war would surreptitiously become incrusted in the collective unconscious of Israeli people, so that it converts itself into a quasi natural occurrence in their daily life. This could be interpreted as a trend of alienation, since taking war as a natural phenomenon or even as a contingency is a symptom of alienation. That may be particularly true if one considers that the "civilian occupation" is supported by a whole theological and philosophical system. In the frame of a strategy for reshaping the Jewish "Memory", a new semantical approach infuses the Jewish "mission" with an aura of holiness. Biblical symbols such as a rock, a tree, a hill chosen to express the original suffering and resistance of the Jewish people against the Gentiles, are used as a mythical rallying point in the implantation of a new Israeli colony. Another consequence of this process of sacralization is the systematical appropriation of strategic hilltops which provide Israeli settlers with an extraordinary capacity of control over the neighborhood and convert them into good sentinels of the policy of reconquest.
Eyal Weizman, author of "Hollow Land" who contributes with his comments in the elaboration of this book, insists on the fact that a demystification of the biblical symbols used in the frame of the policy of civil occupation is a must. Also, one should learn to look at those apparently innocent objects like cans of coke, watermelons, etc... and be aware of the role they might play in this environment of conflicts. Each of them could hide a little bit of this awful war. As Weizman stresses, it is precisely the purpose of this book: Broomberg and Chanarin have the great merit of having been able to translate into an accessible language the hidden mechanisms of this war and the pernicious consequences that they have on people.

This is a beautiful photobook providing a look into life in South Africa, and the issues that challenge it. The pictures are raw and moving, but it some strange way they leave the viewer with some feeling of despondent optimism for the country.

Cunningham was the last of a long line of great sailor-admirals who made the Royal Navy master of the seas for centuries. He was a superb sailor, a longtime "destroyer man" and a tough old sea dog who rose to the top of his profession and became First Sea Lord, Britain's top naval officer. He wasn't the kind of career-minded, self-serving politician who has come to dominate the ranks of the U.S. Navy's top officers in modern times. If you are interested in war at sea and/or you are a former sea-going Navy officer like myself, then take time to read this book, you'll enjoy it.

Adrenergic Dysfunction and Psychobiology provides a comprehensive review of a broad and diverse field, covering subjects from catecholamines to stress to locus coeruleus activity. This is the first book to contain in one place up-to-date material that is not otherwise available, allowing the reader to obtain an overview of the field. Each chapter has been written by recognized experts, with an emphasis on the interface between biological and psychological processes.

The material covered in Adrenergic Dysfunction and Psychobiology is sure to be of interest to anyone working in the areas of mental health problems, behavioral research, and neuroscience.
--- form book's dustjacket

I absolutely adore this book. I carry it with me everywhere, because it brings me into instant remembrance of the importance of opening my own heart to God in every moment. It is a beautiful book, filled with wonderful images that can help all of us access our own deepest connection to the Divine Spirit of all there is. I highly recommend it to everyone !

Revilo Oliver was an old school racialist and a hardcore anti-Semitic professor of the classics, claiming that good Jews merely cover for the bad Jews, meaning that there are no good Jews. He studied comparative religions deeply, but did not value them as truthful or helpful, but he thought they merely revealed the mindsets of different races. In this volume, the eloquent professor with his large vocabulary and sardonic humor critiques Christianity as the religion of the west and also as a hoax perpetrated by the Jews on the gullible goyim (cattle). At times, I felt that Oliver was a bit paranoid, such as when he claims that by the year 2000, there won't be enough farmland to feed the ever swelling masses of non-white people. He also felt that it would almost be better that white people slit their throats now, rather than go through the suffering that non-whites will give them once they violently overthrow white society. He was a firm believer in a Civil War 2 situation, rather than a slow decline of white civilization through the intermixing of the races and a low level violence against white people. Oliver did not believe in peace and love because that leads to miscegenation that brings the decline and destruction of white civilization. He also did not believe in stupid wars that split the blood of white men over religion, race, or ideology while the Jews gleefully fund both sides of the war and watch the stupid goyim destroy themselves. Oliver's view of the world was a grim one in which each race competes to be the master race and a race has to be aggressive if it wishes to survive. He hated pacifists and thought that wars against other races would be inevitable. He also thought that Rousseau should have died in obscurity with his unrealistic beliefs in the brotherhood of man and the nobility of savages. Rousseau stated several times that he could not handle reality and it shows the degeneracy of white civilization that we take such a crank seriously and let Jews run our affairs. That other degenerate of the French Revolution that some people take seriously, Marquis De Sade, should have been put to death for kidnapping and torturing people.

The first essay explains how Christianity is a religion of white people of the West only and how it is has been complete folly to try to convert other races to Christianity. He explains that other races are just pretending that they are Christian to receive aid from the white man, and that in earlier times, the white man's military would punish anyone who decided to have missionaries as the main dish in a barbeque. There is also a translation problem with certain theological concepts that do not translate well into other languages, such as the meaning of truth. He warns that the divide between the races is vast and white people should not assume that non-whites are merely white people in disguise who think like us and want to behave like us. We are not very good at detecting deceit from other races because we have a tendency to be truthful and honest. He mentions the folly of the romantic generosity of white people who feed other tribes who basically will always be our enemies but are perfectly willing to accept our aid. But Oliver regrets the decline in Christianity to a certain extent because it helped unify whites and many fundamentalist Christians, the only ones that take the Bible seriously, are often far right in their politics and actively resist communism. He thought that communists intend to turn us into unthinking, robotic slaves. Ersatz Christians, however, still cling to the social superstitions of Christianity such as the belief in the equality between the races, although they do not believe in the miracles of the Bible or the divinity of Christ. The decline in Christianity can be attributed to our tendency to be rational, wanting to follow the truth wherever it may lead. Scientific facts have made us doubt the Bible.

In another essay, ¨The Jews love Christianity¨, Oliver basically shows that he is an atheist and he thinks that Christianity is destroying the West with its beliefs in the equality of all God's children, universalism, and its foolish altruism toward other races. He states that the early Church fathers were Jews who tailored the New Testament to serve their interests. He thought the Sermon on the Mount was silly and destructive drivel. He states that no one can follow the Bible to the letter unless they are schizophrenic because of all the logical contradictions in the Bible. He accused Christians of reading the Bible in a trance in which they let go of their critical faculties that they use with other texts. He also says that Christianity has had a problem with Marrano Jews who superficially accept Christianity and infiltrate the church and laugh at the gullibility of the goyim who think that they are converted. He would prefer that we make Beowulf our sacred book since it supports the values of truthfulness, honor, courage, heroism, and loyalty to one's nation and tribe. He does not like Christianity for its holy war between an imaginary good and evil and for its emphasis on the importance of the afterlife rather than this life.

This is a good book for exploring the racialist mind. Oliver has some insight into race relations as basically a hostile and competitive situation, even though he is a bit paranoid, negative, and disturbing at times. In a strange way, he asks us to be like Jews, who are aggressive and loyal to each other. He also compares us to Jews, stating that whites are a hated minority around the globe. I would say sometimes we are hated, but also admired. He longs for white unity across the boundaries of class, nationality, and language when there is none really and probably never will be.

The images are of a very high quality and well chosen. I bought the book from e-bay and paid much less. Although I enjoy the book I don't think it's worth the Amazon price

L'environnement d'affaires des organisations devient de plus en plus instable et complexe. Une organisation qui a une structure flexible transforme les éventualités en opportunités. Ce livre présente un modèle de structure flexible basé sur les réseaux d'équipes. Ces réseaux d'équipes traversent les frontières internes et externes des organisations, font l'équilibre entre la coopération et la compétition, et permettent aux organisations d'obtenir le maximum d'un capital humain qui a souvent été malmené. Les auteurs font le pont entre l'organisation traditionnelle et l'organisation flexible, permettant une transition relativement simple. C'est du bonbon.