Barry Books

I found this book to be a wonderful companion on a recent airline flight. It is full of great advice and suggestions on improving the quality of one's life and changing negative attitudes. The book is organized in such a way that you can read it in short segments and still get a lot out of it. The stories are great. I find myself returning to this book in order to remind myself of what is truly important!

This is a handy book providing quick inspiration and positive encouragement, filled with engaging anecdotes and memorable phrases. It's easy to read, direct and straightforward. The simple steps affirmed so personally by the author are empowering in their uncomplicated directness. Caliandro's style enables the reader to embrace kindness and stillness as the simple, yet profound, values they are and can be in our lives. Even if you do not savor every word of this book, there are bound to be several offerings to meet your need.

I was introduced to Dr. Caliandro by way of Marble Collegiate Church in NYC, an inclusive Christian community that he leads. Before reading "Simple Things" I read a number of his sermons and articles, drawn by his consistent voice of love and encouragement. I found "Simple Steps" to be equally inspiring; reading it is like having a best friend and cheerleader by your side.

Dr. Caliandro's message is a simple one of happiness, freedom, and personal growth; the fulfillment of our birthright. However, the real power of his words is in putting them into action; like other worthy endeavors, it's not easy, goes slow at times, but is ultimately rewarding. In other words, he provides a great map for the journey that is ours to take.

This is a great book to read through quickly (like a story book), then open up again to absorb and practice the 10 simple steps.

In style, you can hear/feel the influence of Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, his predecessor. And like Peale, Caliandro's voice rings with energy, inspiration and great love. Though not a religious book per se, the principles of various religious beliefs are apparent.

PS - I also watched the video, "Simple Steps: Ten Things You Can Do to Create an Exceptional Life" which was a good compliment to this book. If you're not ready or willing to commit to both, check your local library and preview before you buy. Whatever you decide, it's time --and money -- well spent.

This well written book is chock full of wisdom! Life affirming stories with lots of great advice. This is great to read straight through or to be savored a little at a time.

Barry J. Nadell, a Kroll executive, is an industry authority. You can count on the veracity of his book.

If you haven't already read the previous 2 reviews, please do so. I won't reiterate the good things that were already said. However, the information provided by Mr. Nadell was more than sufficient enough for me to successfully start a 2nd business as a pre-employment and tenant backgound check service. Thank you Mr. Nadell for clarifying the FCRA statutes for the layman.

Starts with general info, including the necessity behind pre-employment background checks for employers, citing statistics regarding falsified employment applications, employee theft & lawsuits, employer turnover costs.

Covers: the FCRA (Fair Credit Reporting Act), with statutes, rules; FTC (Federal Trade Commission) relating to background checks; steps to take before performing a background check, including examples of disclosure forms that violate the law; workplace investigations; electronic signatures; adverse action; timeframes & accuracy of reports; Megan's Law (sex offenders/child molesters); FirstAlert; Social Security Trace; Motor Vehicle Report; References; Credit Reporting; Education Verification; Military Service; Civil Records; Workers' Compensation records; Liens & Judgments; current/past criminal warrants & drug rehab records.

Next, "'7 Free Steps Any Employer Can Take Immediately', to protect against making a bad hire." How to get good information on an employment application, with an example included.

THEN, after all that in the first 45 pages, it covers state-by-state "laws regarding pre-employment inquiries, fingerprinting, fair credit, labor & employment, privacy, civil rights, & background screening involving children, financial institutions, law enforcement"...& details specific state guidelines, cited specifically & including statute number, & searches available in each state.

Page 131 starts with states with drug testing laws & specifics of those laws, then finishes with "Critical Definitions" (glossary); summary of your (employers') rights; legal notices; summaries of applicable governmental entities & Acts (OSHA; FCRA; FMLA; RA; EPPA; ERISA; FLSA; ADEA; ADA; DPPA; EEOC).

Overall, 'Sleuthing 101' is definitely a MUST HAVE for anyone in the information specialist, investigative, small business owner fields & I'm glad I ordered this gem & have it in my personal library. I foresee using it often.

Barry Nadell has done an excellent job at teaching ordinary people about the legal aspects of background checks and the hiring process. Get inside tips and knowledge from an industry expert in language and format that you can understand. A state by state explanation of the law is given, so every employer, human resource manager, business owner can benefit from this book no matter where you live and what business you are in. I will be keeping this book on my reference desk for future use. A Must Have!!! *****

CPS workers, being trained in the social so-called-sciences, prefer to make child protection decisions based upon their own intuition and opinion, not facts and evidence. As someone who counsels parents of children who have been apprehended, this concerns me. It IS true that quite often the intuition of protection workers is correct, because protection workers are sensitive to the meaning of what goes on in families. What protection workers forget (or ignore) is that they represent the power of the state: no parent should be at risk of the state removing his or her child unless the state has hard facts and hard evidence to show the child is actually in danger.

This author is diplomatic about the way protection workers really don't want to have anything to do with courts and laws and lawyers and just want to do the right thing as their hearts tell them. But he is also very direct about how important facts and evidence are to enable workers to protect children IN COURT, which is ultimately where it counts.

This book should contribute to protection workers everywhere growing up about this issue and taking on the full weight of a difficult job, not just the fluffy-duffy new-age sensitive-feely my-heart-is-singing intuitive bits that they so much prefer. The author shows how to set aside emotional baggage and get the real job done, which is protecting kids from real proven danger, not indulging in recreational anxiety attacks about going to court.

This book does a great job of letting social workers know what we defence counsel are up to when we cross-examine them on the witness stand in a child protection case. Fair enough; social workers are usually delicate flowers who wilt on the stand if someone actually questions their decisions, but we don't want anyone to go into cardiac arrest while testifying. But this book misses the real point: the problem with social workers going to court is not that they are emotionally oversensitive about every little thing (although this is true), it's that they don't know how to make their case based on FACTS. This book does a good job of showing social workers how to stay comfortable on the witness stand (which is why I give it four stars), but it doesn't tell the second part of the story--- that social workers have to get over the delusion that their word is law, that the LAW is the law, and their job is to use good solid evidence (not just psychobabble) in court, if they really want to justify taking a child away from its parents. What this book really doesn't acknowledge is that social workers don't like courts second-guessing their decisions and that they prefer to run people's lives without interference from anybody, including courts and lawyers. That's why the social work profession remains junior league, amateur hour, disrespected and lacking in credibility. It's all very well to spell out the magic tricks in court for delicate social workers, as this book does, but the real challenge is for social workers to get over themselves and their little petty emotional reactions and get on with the job of putting proof together for court --- that's the real professional job, and this book lets social workers off way too easy. WAY too easy.

In direct clear language the author explains why court is sooften a place in which social workers give away their power and how totake back that power. His central point is that we already have atoolbag of skills to protect kids out in the world, and that these same skills can be used in the courtroom to handle cross-examination comfortably and effectively.

What I like best about this book is how the author clarifies that recreational anxiety about going to court is purely a personal choice. The concrete methods he suggests for maintaining comfort on the witness stand are all practical and do-able.

Every protection worker should read this book before going to court. It's outstanding.

I took a training workshop from the author and this book contains many of the ideas and techniques we used during the workshop. What I like the most about his approach is that he comes from a place of respect for the whole person, whether doing regular child protection work, or testifying on the stand, or living a balanced personal life. So much of our training as social workers is highly intellectual, omitting the huge emotional impact on the worker in dealing with families in crisis. Going to family court is a frightening prospect to most of us, especially the idea of being cross-examined by an agressive lawyer. This author shows practical, experiential ways of handling aggression by the legal system with professional tools that we already use everyday in the work itself. I LIKE being able to remain calm on the witness stand (and everywhere else in my life!) and this book showed me how to do it consistently and safely. I don't fear going court any more -- I used to have anxiety attacks beforehand every time -- and understanding the strategies used by defence counsel has enabled me to give my evidence calmly without reacting personally. Frankly, I can't say enough about this author. His book showed me how to protect children in court without losing it, and it also changed my life, for the better. The publisher has a paperback version which is much cheaper than the hardcover text book.

SPEECHLESS: THE EROSION OF FREE EXPRESSION IN THE AMERICAN WORKPLACE is a top pick for college-level business libraries, addressing issues of freedom of speech from legal, managerial and ethical perspectives and examining how the legal system affects employee speech rights and employer workplace management alike. From office politics and political correctness to protection for expression and how and why free speech works, SPEECHLESS is a key acquisition not just for business holdings, but for libraries strong in American politics and civil rights issues.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

This book is very well researched and scholarly but also written in a very readable format -- even with a respectful sense of humor in places. As a human resources professional, I find the subject of this work of particular interest. Not only does it cover the subject of free speech in the workplace in a very authoritative manner, but it also provides some excellent legal context on topics such as 'employment at will' in an easily understand fashion for the reader who may not have any formal legal experience. Overall, it was a very worthwhile read which both informed and captivated me on a topic of significant import in today's workplace. A respectable piece of writing on a complex and potentially controversial topic! Well done Professor Barry.

This is an important book, and I read it with a growing sense of its value and force. It is in the American dialogue - the great national debate that takes place at the water cooler as well as the blogosphere; the church picnic as surely as the corner bar - that the warp and hue of our nation's culture take shape - finally forming through policy, legislation and influence the environment that we, and those who follow us, will inhabit.

If this is correct, as Vanderbilt University professor Bruce Barry makes a solid case for in his timely, lucid and meticulously researched "Speechless - the Erosion of Free Expression" in the American Workplace (swerving neither left nor right as he goes) then certainly, if we are to have a true democracy, this dialogue must carry forward the beliefs of all Americans. Nor are these beliefs merely intended for the ballot box; indeed, they are the essence of what Dr. Barry refers to as the marketplace of ideas. For it is in this marketplace (as Dr. Barry makes plain) with its tension, its push and pull of competing voices, that arises the most vital and important element of a functioning democracy: Truth.

This notion of a marketplace of ideas and the necessity of its vitality is not new. In Chapter 6 ("Why Free Speech Works"), Dr. Barry quotes Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes' famous dissent in the 1919 Abrams v. United States, in which Holmes describes "the best test of truth" as "the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market."

A marketplace for ideas, from which truth is sometimes "roughly" (mostly roughly, it seems) constructed - this very truth which informs our laws and policies and national conversation - we have this very marketplace now, right? And it's protected by the First Amendment, right? In fact, in the Internet age, this marketplace for ideas is bigger and better than ever, right? So why write a book called "Speechless - the Erosion of Free Expression in the American Workplace"? Ok, so maybe we can't always say what we want in the workplace, but doesn't that still give us weekends and evenings for speaking our mind?

Wrong. And this is where "Speechless" especially shines - as a compelling, sometimes unnerving study of the vast patchwork quilt of law and policy that many of us confidently suppose is there to cover our back.

In "Speechless," Barry shows us how that quilt is doing an increasingly uneven job of protecting us (us mainly being employees but by extension here, all Americans) as it inevitably, along the way degrades our national dialogue. Building his case that our backs are either not covered, or not covered very well (nor with any kind of predictability), Barry travels the country, producing case after case of this employee and that employee losing his or her job for reasons complex and simple, large and small. Drawing out guidelines based on state action (i.e., the right that congress will not curtail our speech), differences in public vs. private employment, and exceptions like whistleblower protection (including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act), and others, we are left with a certain cold clarity: as a public-sector employee, "you have rights to free speech except where you don't," and rather worse for private-sector employees: "you have no right to free speech except when you do."

But it's not even that simple. Shoring up many of these free speech (or lack thereof) terminations (with, in these cases, their attendant litigation) is the rule of "at will" employment - basically meaning that both employee and employer either may be fired - or may quit - without "cause, notice or severance." In other words, if as an employer I decide I don't like your blog about, say, undocumented workers (regardless of what it says), and even though it has nothing to do with my company and you wrote it on your own computer, on your own time, I can fire you when you next walk in the door, and not hand over a penny in severance pay. (If as an employee, I don't like my boss's blog, I am free to quit my job without notice, etc, but I am the one without the paycheck.)

And as Barry points out, at-will employment is the "dominant employee relations policy in the United States."

Combine "at-will" employment with such additional conditions as (among others) a significant decline in union employees, judges increasingly likely to tilt toward management, an increase toward company political partisanship, and longer work hours w/the Internet at hand, and the net result is that our glorious marketplace of ideas is lately more often the kind of place where if you value your job, you'll want to watch what you say, and to whom you say it. Of course, anyone may contest a termination and push it toward settlement or courtroom - but the individual (possibly still minus a paycheck) will be squaring off against Goliath, and Goliath's well-paid lawyers.

Dr. Barry has performed a much needed job in rounding up so concisely the many loose strands that circumscribe America's environment for free speech. But he also done something else: in Speechless, he broadly and brightly illuminates areas of our lives as Americans that have slipped deeper into the shadows, where essential protections have begun to drop off and in some cases, no longer even exist. And it is only with this knowledge that we can begin to reclaim what we are losing.

As a business ethicist, I expected to find in Speechless a detailed discussion of the implications of voice and silence for ethics in organizations, with references to topics like whistle-blowing, groupthink, and moral imagination. I found that discussion in Chapter 9, which is about the right length for it, because those topics have been covered well elsewhere, and Chapter 9 is a good introduction to many of the important works in that area.

The rest of the book treats the restriction of expression in the workplace as an ethical problem of a different order, with implications both for the quality of life of individual employees, and for the quality of participation in political and cultural institutions outside the firm. But despite clear advocacy for greater freedom of expression in the workplace, Speechless also explores the risks that such freedom poses: a hostile working environment, partiality in public bureaucracies, employees driven to distraction by each other, or the legal and reputational threats that can arise when someone says something thoughtless. The result is a thorough, evenhanded, and entertaining study of a perennial problem: with liberty comes liability, both for those who grant them and for those who take them.

Speechless's readable discussions of the relevant legal frameworks and cases are particularly helpful. They facilitate not only understanding the tensions between goods at stake, but also identifying remedies that can be taken at both the public policy and the enlightened-management levels. For scholars interested in exploring the implications of speech and its restriction in the workplace, this book is a useful introduction to the perspectives of law and management on the problem. Managers trying to ascertain what they have a responsibility to control and what they have the freedom to permit will also find Speechless to be a valuable resource . . . as will employees who are curious or nervous about the risk posed to their careers by the scope of their convictions or their recreations.

the absolute honesty of this book is amazing. it gave me a great insight into the mind of a troubled teenager. i think many teenagers could relate to the feelings and pain of addiction and the fears related to it. a great read for anyone and a friend who is an addiction counsellor found it very helpful indeed. i think the author was very brave to share so much of himself in his writing.

I picked this book up in Dublin, Ireland while on holiday there in July. If you want to read about a young man who loses his grip on his actions, appetites, sanity and even his soul - then this is the book for you. Written by a young Irish writer, the memoir tells a true story of cannabis, alcohol, LSD, amphetamine and a brief fling with heroin. The writer retains the 'feel' of his youth in his writing. His naivety and recklessness are often features of adolescence, yet for this young man they prove to be his downfall. If this memoir tells me something, it is of the instinct to survive in all of us. An excellent read, and a book worthy of praise for the courage it must have taken to write it.

I discovered this gem of a book in Dublin while on holiday there. This memoir is an account of one young man's journey as he experiences elation and euphoria with cannabis and amphetamine, to the dark and terrifying ordeal of psychosis. In this true story, the author's dream of living while shrouded in a chemical comfort is shattered as his sanity finally begins to erode, and he must attempt to reclaim his mind. Amazon.co.uk and many other european web sites stock this memoir, so if you can't buy it here at home, you can purchase it there. As another reviewer said, this book is a "must read".

'Stoner to Loner' at first seems like the Howard Marks-esque kind of literature that laughs at 'recreational' drug use, and makes light of the ensuing mayhem and camaraderie that is sure to follow. However, this memoir begins in quite a casual and a humorous manner that you think you have bought a memoir that will merely poke fun at drug use. Wrong! The author has crafted this memoir in such a way that by chapter Fourteen you are already knee-deep in psychedelic wanderings, and you, like the author are wondering how on earth you got there. This memoir in short is a truthful, raw and unsparing account of a young man that seems to disintegrate over the course of the book. He changes from a casual cannabis smoker, to a lost, broken young man. He seems to have lost something special on his euphoric, surreal, and finally psychotic journey, and in his writing - it shows. A "must read" for parents or young people. It wouldn't surprise me if Hollywood sees fit to make a movie of this memoir!

There is hardly any book for CRNE review , and sure this one is excellent.
we really need more of such books in areas like Obstetrics , psychiatry.

El libro esta muy completo, verdad que sip, con todo y los apartados de maquinas sincronas que lo hacen mas completo, God bless you!

Although old but this book is really one of the top books in the area of power system stabilization and control.
The book provides the principles of electrical machine modelling which are explained with many examples. The last chapter gives a brief idea of modeling of multi-machine systems.

This is the only good source where you can find a decent exposure to the dynamical modelling of the power systems, the details given in the book were very helpful to conduct my research. There are other books around but they are either incomplete or too detailed or a major pain.

This book is a must for elementary prinicpals!
The handouts are very helpful.

The Survival Kit for the Elementary School Principal is full of practical advice, common sense solutions, and scores of forms and letters that are of instant use to the busy practitioner.

The resources included are true "time savers" and reflect the seasoned and reasoned practice of a wise, politically astute elementary principal. Tips and techniques for creating a school vision and building and sustaining morale-- all-the-while developing a positive school culture are offered.

The accompanying CD is a true bonus. I simply inserted the CD, downloaded the included Acrobat Reader, and voila, I had within my reach, ready for adaptation, many useful, relevant, and well-written forms, checklists, and letters.

This has been a required book in my graduate course in elementary school leadership for the past two years. I think that it gives a well-developed background in the major issues of the principalship and practical tips for the beginning principal. Students who have completed the course and gone on to leadership positions feel that this was a very practical guide that helped them in their work. As a bonus, students within the class felt that inclusion of this book added relevance to their academic study. It is clear that Bergman has written a very practitioner oriented text. I plan to continue using this book as long as it is available.

Jay A. Heath
Professor of Educational Administration
University of South Dakota

New school administrators, as well as veterans, will find this book useful. The book comes with a CD and is an incredible resource for elementary principals. The CD alone was worth the price. Administrators who are revising and restructuring their schools will have a format to build on in areas ranging from technology and internet use policy to long-range planning.

I bought this book after wearing out my library's copy. I use it as an introduction to a quilting unit I teach with gifted children, and open the box of tissues before I ever open the book each year. It is poignant and wonderful, and the author's vivid language is a reader's (and teacher's) dream.

This is a story about one summer that 2 brothers share. One of the brothers has cancer and the other brother tells the story of what he learned during his brother's illness. He learns how to make the bed while his brother is in it and he learned how to smile when his heart is breaking inside. This is truly a tale of brotherly love!

Cancer is so real in today society. Each family is touched with it in some way. This book is really heartbreaking and will make you count your blessings if your children are healthy.



Yes. I have never read a book quite like this one. There are books that help kids deal with the death of grownups but I'm not sure there are many that deal with terminally ill children and their feelings.

"That summer began like always, with hoots and shouts, all of us running in the sun, freed from school..." But, as his brother, the narrator tells us, on the fourth of July, Joey "took sick." He went to bed and stayed there. When he perked up, the whole family was filled with hope, and when he got worse again, they realized the awful truth. "What do you do when you know you are leaving the world, when your heart hurts with grieving? Joey was leaving. It was clear as the rain that stung his window that summer." Gram sat by his bed keeping vigil and quilting, and when Joey couldn't sleep, Gram taught him how to quilt. And so that summer, he sewed the pieces of his young life together, all the things he love, "a patch with an owl because he loved its call, the cow he squeezed from clay (first grade), and his fishing pole and a lightning bug and a country road and his baseball glove..." Author, Tony Johnston, and illustrator, Barry Moser, invite the reader to share in this very intimate and moving experience. Mr Johnston's quiet, understated, and eloquent text is at times both poignant and uplifting, and rich in beautifully poetic figurative language. Mr Moser's stunning artwork captures the special moments of Joey's life in dazzling full-colored illustrations, juxtaposed with touching and emotional gray and white "snapshots" that seem to be pulled from the family photo album. Together, word and art paints a remarkable portrait of life, strong love and loss, told with great insight, wisdom, and truth. Perfect for youngsters 5 and older, That Summer is an inspiring story that deals with the sensitive subject of the death of a loved one with honesty and respect, and should help open important discussions. As Barry Moser writes in his dedication... "For all the courageous people who care for terminally ill children, with my deepest respect and admiration." An amazing book that shouldn't be missed.

"That Summer" is a poetic blend of the carefree days of a childhood summer disrupted by the reality of terminal illness. The narrator's brother, Joey, becomes ill during summer vacation. As his illness progresses, he begins to piece a quilt: "Cut scraps into shapes of all the things you love," Gram said,"then join them with thread." Illustrated with beautiful graphite and chalk pictures by Barry Moser, Tony Johnston weaves a story of a brother's love, a family's loss, and a patchwork of memories through powerful figurative language: "...that summer, a gleam of guilt glided through my heart like a gleam of snake down a hole." This is one of the most moving childrens' books I've ever read.

No one book can change a persons life but some like this provides more tools for the project that may lie ahead.

Things That Work: A No-Nonsense Guide To Recovery By One Who Knows by Barry Bocchieri is an inspirational guide specifically written to assist alcoholics to effectively recover from the painful process of withdrawal. Guiding the reader through helpful and effective ways of dealing with the same troubles he personally experienced, Bocchieri deftly instructs healthy and progressive solutions applicable for all who suffer from alcoholism. Things That Work is very strongly recommended to all readers on the road to recovery for its ability to relate and guide its struggling readers through the many barriers faced with overcoming and conquering alcohol addiction.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU MR. BOCCHIERI, this is a marvelous book to review again and again, not just for recovering alcoholics/drug abusers. This book touches on the BASIC idea, everyone of us has to be responsible for oneself and DECIDE WHAT WORKS BEST FOR OUR CIRCUMSTANCES. KEEP TRYING! that should be a subtitle! NEVER GIVE UP!!!!! I feel very inspired by the author advising not just what information he has gathered but what experiences he shares of his own. AGAIN, THANK YOU!!!

What a relief! This book gave me very simple, specific tools to help fight addiction. Also, it had down-to-earth suggestions to help with panic attacks, anxiety, even conflict in the workplace. With humor and insight the author really spoke to me without any psycho-babble!

I do not profess to be any sort of expert pertaining to the governmental in-fighting, intrigue and conspiracies within the Israeli, Western & International political spheres, but if only one percent of the revelations illustrated in this book by Barry Chamish are correct, then it is more than sufficient to give serious cause for concern in relation to the security of the Jewish State. Especially when so many of the revelations disclosed here relate to the `peace process'.

At the outset, the author declares that what one will read and access within this book will not be found in the news media. This book will indeed shock many readers. It certainly shocked me.

This is an incredible journal of the scheming, back-stabbing, betrayals, political manipulation & external International interference in matters regarding the present and future status of Israel.

Many International entities are referred to in some detail, including the US & its variety of Governmental Departments, the UK, France & other Western nations, plus numerous Middle Eastern nations including Egypt, Syria, Jordan. Not to mention certain notable elements within Israel's own political arena such as Rabin, Peres, Beilin plus Palestinian figures such as Arafat & his adjutants.

Shortly before writing this review I read in the Jerusalem Post about Shimon Peres' alleged intentions of `redefining' what constitutes a Jew. Elaborating somewhat, the report assigned to the alleged comments of Peres, further outlined that if the `definition' was left to Rabbis, then perhaps moves should be taken to actually `redefine' what constitutes a Rabbi. I was astonished at how someone could even make such a statement. Yet when faced with other revelations such as those so well depicted in this book, surprise should perhaps have been the last sensation to be experienced.

Reading the disclosures here leaves one with a different perception of so many senior Israeli political figures as well as a vast plethora of International figures including US Presidents, Secretaries Of State, UK Prime Ministers & Foreign Secretaries and similar personages from many other senior figures in both the West and Mid-East. I cannot help but ponder on how `paper-thin' the Mid-East peace agreements between Israel and Egypt/Jordan seem to appear.

I have no previous experience in relation to the actual veracity of these disclosures by the writer. However, I also possess two of his other works entitled "The Last Days Of Israel" and "Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin". Having browsed through these other two books, they too appear to possess `mind-blowing' material.

Whilst the disturbing implications of what one reads here can only attract concern about the manipulation of Israel's affairs, as a Christian who has a deep love for the People & Land of Israel, I personally hold to the words included in the Old Testament Psalm 33; 10-11..."The Lord foils the plans of the nations; He thwarts the purposes of the peoples. But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of His heart through all generations."

In other words, no matter what the politicians/nations conspire or contrive, the Divine Purpose for Israel, it's People & Land, will eventually be fulfilled.

an excellent outlet to understand the source of the present irrationality. while the book may seem overburdened with conspiratorial themes, Cahmish's documented historical behavioral patterns and factual narrations of the 'traitors and carpetbaggers' does fit their public posturing. as such, the book aptly neutralizes the present journalistic facade, while offering a fresh and believable account. highly recommended.

We need more investigative reporters from Israel like Mr. Chamish! It's refreshing to read what's really going on in Israel behind the scenes of the "peace process." Few are courageous enough to expose the self-serving Establishment, but thankfully every generation has flickers of the "eternal flame" of truth. May "Traitors and Carpetbaggers in the Promised Land" serve to stir people up to truly think and question, and come to an independent conclusion, based upon all the facts and not just what we're spoon-fed!

I have been student of the Middle East for the past 40 years and have read hundreds of books on the Arab-Israeli conflict. All of them combined don't add up to what Mr. Chamish done: he has given us the real story, not the propaganda we read in the so-called "free press".

One can only wonder what this man can write for an encore.

Efraim Menashe Kibbutz Amchofshi Israel