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A critically important contribution to African-American Father-Son relationships from the heart of a Dad who was raised by a single parent mom in inner city Philadelphia. I'd recommend this book to the whole family as well as any son, especially an "at risk" youth. Each of the 20 chapters presents a father-to-son perspective on earthy life issues in clear, concise narratives, with reasonable discretion and frank integrity...

*** Guns *** Gangs *** Drugs *** The Law *** Homosexuality *** Communication *** Problems & Struggles *** Friendship *** Religion *** Mothers *** Health & Fitness *** Hygiene *** Sex *** The Game *** Tenets *** Education *** Ethnic Origin *** Life & Death *** Words to Live By *** F.Y.I./Poetry ***

The "Father to Son" keynote poem will be an award winner. Reginald Bullock has been there, and his personal troubles-to-triumphs guided tour will inspire more successes.

Reggie is a very powerful writer with the ability to communicate to all ages at the same time. His knowledge and background gives him a flexibility that is very unique. Almost like James Bond, only with an urban flavor. I have read many books in my time, and most writers skirt the truth when it comes to some of the subjects Reggie has chosen; however, this book hits the nail square on the head. I would recommend better critics than myself to read the book and write a review. I see big things happening for this man.

Each chapter in the book is a lesson in itself. OPRAH needs to have this guy on TV for the world to learn from. He hits all the problems straight on and pulls no punches. So many teenagers and single parent mothers need to read this book.

"I'm Not Stiller," by the Swiss writer Max Frisch exudes postwar high seriousness; it cannot wait to show off its many layers of meaning. First, "A Note to the Reader" informs us that we are being permitted to study "The strange history of Anatol Ludwig Stiller, sculptor, husband, lover . . . prisoner": the notebooks he wrote while in prison and his prosecutor's postscript. Then come several august lines from Kirkegaard on man's passion for freedom: the need to "choose oneself," rule out every possibility of becoming something else and, in that difficult choice, find happiness. Then comes the voice of Stiller himself: treacherous, evasive and compelling as an Edgar Allan Poe murderer or a Raymond Chandler detective.

He is a prisoner in Switzerland (a country "so clean one can hardly breathe for hygiene") and the Swiss officers who arrest him are convinced he is a certain Anatol Stiller, who disappeared six years ago, leaving behind a wife, a mistress, a moderately successful career and a few minor political scandals. But he insists he is Jim White, an American with a past that includes Mexican peasants, Texas cowboys, the docks and back alleys of Northern California, and three murders, as yet untraced.

Murders are committed, as it turns out, but as Stiller is brought face to face with the woman who says she is his wife and with the prosecutor who says Stiller has had an affair with his wife, it becomes clear that the murders in question are emotional, metaphorical and discreetly bourgeois. What binds Stiller and his strong-willed but long-suffering wife, Julika? A vacuum: the fact that they have never felt happy together or complete apart. What sets his dream of being another man in motion? A failure of nerve while fighting the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War. And his homeland, economically secure, politically neutral Switzerland is "incapable of suffering in any way over a spiritual compromise," he says.

Mr. Frisch is not really a novelist of ideas; he's a dramatist of ideas. We live out our ideas through our daily lives, after all, and he grasps every nuance of those daily habits and compulsions. It is the tension between these details and the larger ambitions -- so grandly imagined, so absurdly lived out -- that makes the novel work.

For half of my life (i.e. for 18 years up to now), Max Frisch's "Stiller" - which I've read in German - has been my favorite book, closely followed by "Gantenbein" by the same author, and I'm sure it will keep so for the rest of my life. Why? Well, the "Stiller" is a very rich book with several themes and several "layers", so it has something for everyone. The book has a plot which is exiting in itself, but it has more. There are worked in, for example, some little "tales" which at first glance seem to stand quite apart from the rest of the story, but at closer inspection you might recognize them as little parables which illustrate the emotional background of Stiller who always writes about himself (whether directly or indirectly). The readers are left with the task to reconstruct the whole story by themselves, because all they get is limited and necessarily subjective information. This is due to the special situation the writer is in: he is expected to reveal his true identity to the Swiss authorities, who suspect him to be a long-missed citizen of their town and have arrested him to find out. So the matter of Truth is one of the central questions of the book, and the reader is invited to judge on whose side the truth is. Of course, it is not possible that there is more than one truth - or is it?

There are other existential questions the story deals with: trust, for example, or self-expectation, or the question of guilt in human relations. For those of you who are more interested in psychological highlights than in philosophical issues: the book contains superb descriptions of the Swiss mentality and the American style of life, of men and women and their differences, of architects and prison warders and so on. Max Frisch is a very clear-sighted, accurate observer, and even when he is describing in every detail the scenery of a deserted building site on Sunday, it's not boring for a second! The only thing I wonder is if the book is perhaps too European for a Non-European reader. But find out by yourself!

A relatively unheralded classic of modern literature, *I'm Not Stiller* is a remarkable text that is part Camus, part Kafka, part Dostoyevski, with a pinch of Beckett thrown in for seasoning...and, almost inconceivably, even better than the sum of its parts! Max Frisch covers all the main themes of modern man's anguish in this novel--the struggle with identity, alienation, and loss of soul, a struggle that those of us who have survived into the 21st century have largely given up entirely.

Who are we? Why are we? Can we really ever change...and, even if we manage to do so, why won't *they* let us change? Are we truly `condemned' to be who we are? These are just a few of the major themes that Frisch dramatizes in *I'm Not Stiller.* His penetrating psychological study of the title character, Anatol Stiller, is both unforgettable and devastating, as are the studies of each of the novel's supporting players. One would be hard-pressed to think of any author who'd dissected the human character so minutely and exactly as Frisch has in this novel. You come away with the feeling that he's as much a psychiatrist as an artist.

Ultimately, *I'm Not Stiller* is a novel about self-acceptance--but not necessarily in a positive way. Self-affirmation, not as celebration, but as a kind of resignation to a wisdom that is as hopeless as it is true, as sad as it is necessary...the end of a long journey where we are surprised ((and not pleasantly)) to find the person we least expected waiting for us, after all. The person we cant escape no matter how hard we try or how fiercely we struggle: our true selves.

THIS BOOK WAS REALLY GOOD I MUST SAY I WASN'T EXPECTING MUCH FROM THIS BOOK, BUT IM EATING THOSE WORDS BECAUSE I WISH THERE WAS A SEQUEL. DON'T SLEEP THJE COVER MAY BE A LITTLE FUNKY, BUT THE BOOK IS OFF THE HOOK. PLEASE BUY IT YOU WON'T BE DISAPOINTED. THIS BOOK NEEDS MORE PROMOTION, SO MORE PEOPLE CAN READ IT. GONE BULLOCK DO YOUR THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Urban Lifestyle Press has done it again with a masterful tale of choices, consequences and what people will do to protect their honor, their families and the lives they have built for themselves. As a first write, Bullock has really unfolded a thriller that shouldn't be lost as only an "urban tale". Anyone who loves a good "who-dunnit" will love IN THE CUT for the way that it tells a story and lets you into the minds of the characters.

The book took me a little over a week to read, not because of its length, but because I didn't want to miss any of the message.

I will be reccommending the book without a doubt, however, I don't feel as though the summary on the back of the book tells the story that comes through.

Yes, there is the character Manus and his conflict with his baby's mamma--- but that is not the main storyline that I found.

IN THE CUT is about vengeance and how a man--- in this case Tory---was able to wield his mighty hand of revenge without ever lifting a finger... destroying many along the way. The characters are able to live their story with us knowing what we should, and being able to guess at the rest.

I liked the way that Bullock did seem to send the reader on a mysterious journey before finally revealing the real villans and victims in the book.

Can't wait for the next installment from this author.

This book had me going I was thinking that the book would end a certain way and then something occured that changed the whole outcome! Cool read

This is a very good dictionary which takes a very wide range of concepts from all fields of human endeavor and provides short and most often clear and good definitions.On one page I see definitions for ' democratic centralism' 'demography' ' demonstration'(logical) demythologize , dendrochronology, denotation density. There are also on the page names of individuals who are identified and related to the articles on concepts. On this page for instance Charles Demuth(British painter 1935) is referred to the entry on PRECISIONISM. This is a very useful intellectual tool.

I have many dictionaries on my shelves -- among them dictionaries of theology, philosophy, and sociology. I bought this dictionary at an airport, not really being sure how useful it would be. In fact it is a relatively new concept, having originated in the 1970s with Alan Bullock and Oliver Stallybrass. They felt that an ordinary dictionary contains "thousands of words familiar to us all", while an encyclopaedia contains (with regard to modern thought) "a vast amount of irrelevant material". They sensed the need for a dictionary of a new kind.

This book contains nearly 4,000 entries, typically half a column's length, as well as copious cross-referencing, and mini-bibliographies on many subjects. It covers (inter alia) the fields of anthropology, sociology, economics, philosophy, history, politics, physics, and biology. The entries are well written, and by and large would seem to distil the essential meaning and significance of every term. It is also written "in language as simple as can be used without over-simplification or distortion".

In short, if anything has been a major topic of conversation during the past generation, it is likely to be found in this dictionary. I myself have been engaged in postgraduate studies, and have found it to be remarkably comprehensive and dependable, as well as giving me many useful leads in contemporary debate. No one could expect such a book to hold everything -- yet the amount of information that it does hold is surprising. It is not just a faddish idea. It has become one of my most valuable reference tools.

A very useful book. In fact, I use it much more regularly than my Britannica. Where, in a single volume, would you find entries on 'Lolita Syndrome', 'transitional object', 'hydraulic civilisations', 'Equal Rights Amendment' and 'serial music'? In the Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought, of course. And there is much more to learn in this gem of a book. Really a browser's delight! Hurry up: it's still readily available via amazon.co.uk.

The second classic from an international team, the first covering the Whites and Allies. Here, the Red Army is examined in its earliest years, during the civil war. Dr. Bullock, a former military officer and military historian has assembled a team of experts in their fields. Features include Trotsky's famous command train, the first consolidated list of Red armored trains complete with silhouettes from A-Z. Many of these silhouettes were originally pioneered by the Ukraine's leading armor expert, Mr. Romadin. Russia's foremost author and photo collector of armor, Maxim Kolomiets, has provided several armored train photos. Tanks and armored cars are also covered in detail, depicting the Soviet's first organization and use of these on the battlefield. Features include American tanks in Soviet service, detailed patterns of markings and insignia of tanks, armored cars and armored trains. Additional information and details provided by Alexander Deryabin, son of a famous Soviet General officer. The majority of color plates are by Russia's leading armor artist, Andrei Aksenov, the center plate by England's top armor artist, Peter Sarson. Superb collector and resell value if this edition goes out of print.

This volume, though slim, addresses the equipment and tactics used by the nascent Red Army during the Russian Civil War, a subject NEVER addressed in any other book I've ever come across, other than a few lines here and there.

Tanks were, of course, a new technology in 1918. Invented by the western Allies, tanks found their way to Russian depots and later fell into the hands of Red Guards, who promptly used them against the Whites. This book has some rare photos of these machines and discusses their use and numbers. Definitely something you want if you are interested in the Russian Civil War specifically or armored warfare in general.

For the first time, a team of international researchers (one American and two Russians) brings together the story of the armored units of the White Russians in each battle theater. These are the first color depictions of White armored trains world wide. Tanks and armored cars are also examined as well as their impact on the Russian Civil War. Even here, the authors and artist break fresh ground, providing the first examples of tanks and armored cars not seen before, carefully constructed from period photographs and contemporary descriptions. Amazingly, not one of these armored pieces remains inside Russia today in pristine, or indeed, other form. Dr. Bullock has devoted years of collection toward this topic. Mr. Deryabin, son of a famous Soviet general, is literally the founder of studies involving the White Armies. Mr. Aksenov is Russia's most renowned illustrator of armored subjects. Highly recommended. Superb collection and resell value should this edition ever go out of print. Collectors' item!

There are just too few books on the Russian Civil War for my tastes. This book addresses armored forces in the service of the Whites (and if there are few books on the Civil War there are far fewer on the White cause) and the Allies. French and British models shipped in to Russia before Brest-Litovsk and used to fight the Bolsheviks and their bloody cause.

Though small this book is packed with information and uses lots of rare photos.

This book contains a variety of barre and center combinations -- great material for teachers or for dancers who want to learn new combinations at home.

This book has barre combinations that are easy to read. Combinations are listed as easy, intermediate, and advanced which is very useful. Many of the combinations are ordinary, but it is a useful book especially as a jumping off point for writing your own combinations. All the sets are very authentic and correct for a basic class.

A suspicious suicide, reluctant detective, generational friction, environmental activism, and local theater provide fodder for a fairly conventional murder mystery, until the accidental death by guillotine of a lead character during rehearsals for The Mikado takes this tale into a nasty little unconventional turn. Set on the misty shores of Vancouver Island, the mystery deepens as historical grievances and levels of resentment gradually emerge with a growing list of suspects. This is a great first novel by a Canadian pair of authors steeped in drama and literature, but grounded in the concerns of the present day. While The Mikado is not at the top of my must-see list, I greatly enjoyed this page-turner, and can only imagine the concealed twists and innuendos that await revelation for true Gilbert and Sullivan aficionados.

Kay Stewart and Chris Bullock's A Deadly Little List is a mystery set on Salt Springs Island, B.C. It teems with suspects ranging from local environmentalists to the cast of a local production of The Mikado. The title of the book comes from the Lord High Executioner's song, "A Little List," that Ko Ko sings because he hasn't met his quota of executions, so murder is afoot. Constable Danutia Dranchuk is new to her position when she is sent to Salt Springs Island to sign off on what local law enforcement sees as an apparent suicide. Her instincts and shrewd observations tell her that this is a murder and the medical examiner concurs. She persuades her superiors to let her investigate further on her own and, by the conclusion of A Deadly Little List, this female constable has successfully proven her detective skills. When Joe Bertalucci, a security guard in a historic cabin destined for demolition by a wealthy land developer, is found dead, the suspicion falls on the local environmentalists who have been protesting. However, a second murder by guillotine occurs on the set of The Mikado within days of the first. The deaths seem unrelated, but while Danutia is tracking down all her suspects, unbeknownst to her, Arthur Fairweather, a drama critic from the Victoria Post-Dispatch, begins his own snooping looking into the murder connected to the Salt Springs theatre festival's Mikado. The mystery unfolds in alternating chapters from the different points of view of Danutia and Arthur until the stories converge for a dramatic ending. Once Arthur and Danutia finally meet, together they catch the murderer. The writing in A Deadly Little List resonates with witty allusions and lovely similes. Danutia is the dominant character with hints about a dark relationship in her past and a commitment to her law enforcement profession. Arthur is a witty Brit drama critic with an ex-wife. The reader finishes A Deadly Little List expectant that Arthur and Danutia will develop a personal relationship in future sleuthing adventures in other interesting settings.

Peter O'Shea's "The Great South Woods" is a detailed and heartfelt account of the flora, fauna, geography and people of the Northwestern part of the Adirondack Park. All the native creatures of the area are described in detailed narratives similiar to one heard around a deep woods campfire. Golden eagles, racoons, bears, bobcat, snowshoe hare, beaver and white tailed deer are just a few of the animals reviewed in detail and passion. O'Shea easily describes the large variety of trees native to the area. Black cherry, white ash, tamarack, sugar maple, white birch and white pine read more like personalized characters rather than simple plant materials. The rivers and famous waterfalls of the region are also portrayed in delicate prose, prompting one to want to visit them over and over, if only in this book. Hiking along these ancient trails, O'Shea conveys a magical aura to everything he views, including the sweeping vistas from the many peaks and the experience of having a quiet hike interupted by a flight of a grouse or the discovery of a rare plant in a bog. Not content to stop with these topics, O'Shea delves further into the local lore and legend with well researched stories of the trappers, guides and sportsmen that first discovered and then protected this land. You'll find many favorite passages here and a wealth of information that will last lifetimes.

Reading this book I truly felt that I was walking with Peter O'Shea through the woods listening to his wonderful stories. This book is lovingly written and provides the reader with vivid, memorable descriptions of what I know to be a magnificent area of New York State. Well worth reading!

Gives detailed maps of every battle of World War II. Also supplies facts about the time between the World Wars and the postwar era. Highly recommended.

This book covers all of WWII. It includes text, pictures, and great looking maps. This book has the best color maps of any WWII atlas I own (The Historical atlas of WWII, The Cassell Atlas of the second world war, & West Point atlas for the second world war Europe & the Mediterranean)