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I have been in the corporate world for 7 years and have read a number of books on the subject of being promoted. JR Oram's book is by far the best, easiest to read and understand book among them. It is laid out in an easy to use manner and is short and to the point.

After reading this book, I began to understand myself and my manager better and began to apply Oram's advice to my world. I have already started to see the difference in how my manager and others are treating me. I feel more secure at my job, especially with how bad the economy is. I'm not sure, but I think my annual review this year will be my best because I started to implement some of Oram's strategies. I have already received feedback from my manger and I am very happy.

This is a must read for all those who are new to the corporate world and is a God-send to those who have been in the corporate world for a while.

I really enjoyed reading this book with my daughter. It was well written and great for children, who have encountered situations where other kids have made fun of them. The questions and puzzles at the end of the story are also excellent follow up tools for reviewing the story. I would strongly recommend it to any one with a child between the age of 4 and 9.

The Sterilization of Carrie Buck, by J. David Smith and K. Ray Nelson

The `Foreword' quotes Stephen Jay Gould as saying the forced sterilization of Carrie Buck was comparable to the Scopes Trial, but with a greater impact on people's lives that the belief in creationism (p.xv). Eugenics is the pure-bred descendant of Darwin's theory, an error compounded from a mistaken belief system. Chapter 1 tells of Carrie Buck's poverty-stricken childhood. She was adopted at age 3 and became a servant. She was a normal child during her 5 years of schooling (p.3). After a family member raped her, Carrie was turned out of the only home she knew by being classified as "feeble-minded" (p.5). Chapter 2 tells how Emma Buck, Carrie's mother, was committed to a state institution. It does not explain the cause. Carrie's child was adopted by the very family that claimed Carrie was "feeble-minded" (p.23)! The Superintendent of this "Colony" was a believer in eugenics (p.29). The hidden agenda of Dr. Albert Priddy was to use sterilization to provide servants or concubines to "good families" with the "normal functions of any woman" (p.33)! Dr. Priddy had been rebuked by the judge in an earlier case, Mallory v. Priddy for sterilizing a wife and daughter (p.36).

Sterilization laws had been declared unconstitutional as being class legislation (patients in state institutions) when done without due process and depriving a person of their natural right to procreate (pp.49-50). Public sentiment was against this; but when it was changed a law was passed. Then a test case was needed. The "expert witness" never met Carrie Buck (p.59)! Carrie Buck's lawyer, Irving Whitehead, was a close friend to Strode (p.86). Chapter 7 has the testimony of neighbors at the Trial. In Chapter 8 Whitehead argued that sterilization and release could spread venereal disease (pp.120-122)! Estabrook testified from a fashion cloaked as a science (p.131). There was scant scientific evidence for Carrie's "feeble-mindedness" (p.141). Research was funded by a millionaire (p.146). The Dobbs would take Carrie back if only she was sterilized (p.165)! Carrie's daughter was a normal and average student (p.171); she later died of measles.

The sterilization judgment was appealed: it deprived a citizen of the right to procreate without due process of law; it violated the Fourteenth Amendment of equal protection under the law for all; it violated the Eighth Amendment (p.175). The Trial Testimony was based on hearsay. Whitehead said upholding this law created the "worse kind of tyranny" where the state would have god-like power while the state is nothing more that a faction of politicians (p.176). Oliver Wendell Holmes took pleasure in deciding for the State of Virginia (p.178). [Senility?] This Virginia law was adopted by the Third Reich in 1933. Afterwards Carrie was placed as a domestic servant (p.187). She later married (twice), but her last years were spent in poverty.

Statistics can manipulate any body of data so as to support opposing conclusions (p.224). The young and poor from small communities were the common victims of sterilization (p.234). The looniness of eugenics advocates is shown on page 247: a cure-all for poverty and ignorance! [Poverty is the result of the Ruling Class's powers.] Elmer Pendell's poll of his students is dishonest (p.251). The eugenics falsehood still lives in the consciousness of many people (the Big Lie technique). Science knows that a lack of proper nutrition can cause many of the defects called "feeble-mindedness"; this is a result of poverty and oppression. This book lacks an index. [There used to be a "mad scientist" character in popular entertainment of the past; I now understand this.]

A truly comprehensive set of must have books for the aviation enthusiast. A great blend of theory and practical aspects of flying, weather and navigation. These are books that you will read once and refer back to again and again.

Great book to read if people want to understand the bible. I recommend this item to everyone. Thanks.

This book really took me back to my childhood, and I didnt even grow up in St Louis! A must read!

This book is unique and is essential resource for those who are interested in the history of legalized abortion in the USA. Published in 1968, well before the landmark Row vs. Wade Supreme Court decision which struck down laws against abortion in many states, this book offers an important look into the nature of the debate surrounding the issue at the time. The book doesn't take sides but is instead an honest and respectable attempt to present what was known about the biological life of fetal humans (with 17 detailed black and white photographs illustrating the stages of fetal development), health and mortality statistics that will make one wonder where NARAL got its inflated numbers, the legal circumstances surrounding abortion, and discussion bearing on the issue from legal, medical, social science and ethical perspectives. Reading the book, along with the relevant parts of The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court, made me wonder why the proceedings of this conference apparently had so little impact on how abortion as come to be a legally protected, vigorously promoted and defended recourse to support the so called "right to reproductive freedom." Forty years later, the choices we have made have indeed been terrible in their consequences. One can get a good idea of how much this is so from reading The Cost of Choice: Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion. Will we ever, as a country, be able to say we've been wrong about abortion?

I have a copy I got 30-some years ago, and I have read it through. It contains clear summaries of a vast array of Christian and non-Christian subjects. Don't know if it is worth $450; that would have to be judged by rare book fans. Pretty much all of its content can be found somewhere else, but not all in one book. It is worth reading just for the article on Supralapsarianism and another article containing a hilarious account of church dedication gone out of control. The tone of the articles is generally unbiased, with an occasional scold at what the editor considered way out of bounds. This book is a supreme example of the clean and rigorous nature of American Protestant thought in the 19th Century. Read this - your religion will never be the same when you are done.

I. received this book as a gift a few years back, and enjoyed it immensely. I was able to relate to a number of actresses as it was a ritual on Saturdays to attend your local theatre to catch the latest chapter. Buck Rainey did a surpurb job putting the book together with a number of the actresses contributing. Well worth the time and effort. Sincerely Bob Atwell

Paul A. Lombardo's recently published book, "Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell" is a poignant retelling of the court decisions regarding the forced sterilization of a young woman named Carrie Buck. Although written objectively, Lombardo's heart comes through, making the book readable for even a law novice. The book was easily comprehensible. Credit Lombardo's masterful ability to reiterate facts at just the right moment with keeping the reader on track in understanding the key people, issues, and details.
The subject is heart breaking. Lombardo's persistence in getting this story out with painstaking attention to the groundwork is moving. By the time the first trial occurs in the book, the reader has ample information to know what all principals knew and to see clearly the miscarriage of justice.
No one can ask for more from a serious book than that it enlightens and makes one think. "Three Generations No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell" does both. I hope there will be other books from Paul A. Lombardo that perform the same services.