Fox Books

Leo Frobenius and Douglas C. Fox's African Genesis covers the folk tales and myths of Africa, providing a range of simple stories and illustrating them with adaptations of prehistoric rock paintings and portraits of modern Africans. An excellent addition to any ethnic collection.

I picked the book up at the library and was so pleasantly surprised to find fresh writing, fresh ideas and a book that kept my attention. I'm going to search for other books by the author!

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Judi

This is a great book for all children and also for those that have a child at heart. I have read "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night" by Mark Haddon and really enjoyed this book. It is written with the same humor and feel good feelings.This book is a good read and a great value.

How the ten U.S. air bases in Vietnam -- Phu Cat, Da Nang, Tuy Hoa, Nha Trang, Cam Ranh Bay, Phan Rang, Pleiku, Bien Hoa, Binh Thuy, and Tan Son Nhut -- were defended by Air Force Security Police units is now the subject of web pages, articles, memoirs, and books. None of these, however, can replace the original Office of Air Force History account, "Air Base Defense in the Republic of Vietnam, 1961-1973." It was written by Lieutenant Colonel Roger P. Fox, a Security Police officer who had won the Silver Star repelling an attack on Tan Son Nhut Air Base in December, 1966.

This comprehensive official history covers air base defense before Vietnam; the slow development of the air base defense mission; the different views of the Army and Air Force; the threat to the bases; the organization of ground defense; cooperation with the Army, Navy, allied forces, and USAF air units (gunships, choppers, FACs); support; and the more mature arrangements for command and control in the last years of the war.

Along the way, Fox discusses standoff attacks, sapper raids, battalion-sized attacks, and sabotage; active and passive defense; base defense vulnerabilities; the use of herbicides; weapons, equipment, and vehicles; sentry dogs; the Safe Side program; intelligence and communications; and the "self-help syndrome."

There are valuable appendices. One is a listing of each of the 475 attacks on USAF bases, small and large. Another is a glossary of terms and acronyms.

This book is the starting point for any study of air base defense in Vietnam. Tacticians and planners looking for "lessons learned" will find it useful. So will the veteran or family member who wants to see the whole picture of air base defense during the war.

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What a shame this book is out of print. My 2 year old son loves this book.The illustrations are wonderfull the busy shoe shop and the cosy kitchen where Dad is making tea. Its the perfect rainy day book. My son always wants to go and put on his yellow boots just like Alfie and go out and jump in the puddles. SPLISH, SPLASH, SPLOSH

I am a beginner and found this book to be perfect for my learning needs. When I first got my guitar I started learning chords, but found it difficult to progress with sheet music. This book teaches you the basics in a light, gradual progression, with one part understanding and the other practical hands on. I think learning the notes and being able to read music is the first step to understanding the guitar.

This book charts the early adventures of the Spectre, the Sandman, Hourman, The Golden Age Green Lantern, & the Golden Age Flash, as well as other, minor Golden Age characters. Pre-Justice Society, they establish the basics of these characters.


I've been in fandom since the 60's. And these comics, they're still Golden, after all these years.

This story is a science fiction epic. It is a story of good versus evil. It tells of good's final victory over evil. All Things That Exist is the twin stories of the adventures of Saint Kenneth and the Robots. Saint Kenneth is an ordinary human whose life is changed when the arrow of time is instantaneously reversed and Ken travels back in time twice to help the good aliens fight Zirrockk, the leader of the mortal demons and the evil aliens that followed him. Ken eventually discovers that he is the "Legendary Hero of the Tresadox," the last in the line of the "Heroes of Tresadox" chosen by the "Sword of the Universe." The Robots are intelligent machines created by an exiled group of aliens on a remote planet. The Robots also help the good aliens and are the prototype for Ken's own intelligent machine creations, the reploids. It discusses science (astronomy, physics, machine intelligence, evolution and creation), religion (Christian theology and other religions), philosophy (ethics, metaphysics), and events in sports (basketball, football, hockey, Olympics, gymnastics).
It discusses things that boggle the mind: time travel (using wormholes, near-light speed travel, and reversals of the arrow of time), first meeting with extraterrestrials, God, the beginning and end of the universe, machine intelligence, secret organizations, unifying the species and overcoming destruction.
The story is written as a screenplay, not a novel. Also, there are character biographies and other writings (including the summary of the "10 Books," the story of the Robots and the prequel to All Things That Exist), and drawings of characters.
The hero's life before the reversal of the arrow of time is very similar to the author's. The author has worked on this story as a hobby since approximately 1988 and invented characters in Kindergarten (1984). There is a lot of the author's life and interests in this book.
There is a mixing of real and fictional events. The hero (Saint Kenneth) is the author's alter ego. He travels back in time and the world is a little different. Famous people and events appear in the story: Jesus Christ, Satan, Carl Sagan, Shannon Miller, Michael Jordan, Bill Clinton, Atlantis, Roswell incident, Barcelona and Atlanta Olympics, NBA and NHL playoffs, etc.
People who like Star Wars, The Matrix, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Terminator and other such movies will probably like this book. Also Christians, scientists, people who like science, science fiction and people who like sports. It has elements of science, science fiction, the unexplained, mythology, theology, philosophy and the sports world in it.

Before WWII, Perechodnik failed to be admitted to a Polish university, yet he concluded: "Besides, I want it clearly understood that I personally did not come in contact with anti-Semitism." (p. xxii). This adds to the refutation of the claim that prewar Polish anti-Semitism had been an inevitable and constant companion of Polish Jews, and that assimilated Polish Jews suffered from anti-Semitism as much as the unassimilated Jewish majority.

The author provides eyewitness comments on the 1939 war, while in eastern Poland: "I don't deny that there were Jews--old-time Communists--who disarmed Polish detachments, but can one blame this on all the Jews? I believe that the number of Jews who fell with arms in hand while defending Poland was larger than the number of Jews disarming Polish detachments." (p. 2). [Probably true, but military service was compulsory and, in any case, loyalty is not a favor but a due.]

Perechodnik believed that the 1939 war had brought Poles and Jews close together (p. 1), although this cooled somewhat in the following year or so (with Polish denunciations of Jews being "scattered incidents": p. 5). And, despite his later bitterness towards Poles, he recorded observations that don't support the modern notion of Poles habitually delighting in Jewish sufferings. Poles in trains passing the Ghetto lowered their heads, made the sign of the cross, and prayed: "May they rest in peace." (p. 41). On another occasion, Poles stood silently as they saw the blood marks on the pavement of murdered Jews. (p. 55).

In a scene reminiscent of Lanzmann's SHOAH, Polish Jews gave a warning (not mockery) you-will-die gesture to Belgian Jews, who scoffed at it. (p. 107). And, unlike Jan T. Gross and his fans, who speak from their safe perches, Perechodnik didn't think that Poles had some kind of a general duty to risk their lives by hiding fugitive Jews. (p. 101).

Perechodnik cuts the Polish Blue Police (Policja Granatowa) some slack in their thefts from Jews by recognizing the fact that the wages they were paid were non-livable. (p. 31). He doesn't go far enough. Poles themselves lived in crushing poverty under German occupation, and this fact readily explains their eagerness to acquire Jewish properties. In fact, Poles who stole from Jews said that: Jews were already doomed by the Germans, Jewish wealth had originated from Polish soil, and, were Poles not to take Jewish property, it would be taken anyway--by the Germans. (p. 6, 57, 72, 99). Of course, stealing is virtually universal in wartime, and even the Jewish ghetto policemen frequently stole from each other. (p. 88).

The Ukrainian police was vicious. They often shot Jews in the Ghetto, at close range, for sport (pp. 33-35, 44, 105). As for Perechodnik's own Nazi collaboration, which included the dispatching of his relatives to their deaths at Treblinka, he wrote of having a stony heart (p. 104), of believing that he would outlast the Nazis (p. 106), and asking the question of the memoir's title. (p. 54). He then fled the Ghetto and was aided by a succession of Polish benefactors (e. g., p. 101, 159-167, 182-183) before his eventual reputed suicide.

Ironic to the modern thinking that blames Christianity for the Holocaust, Perechodnik, an atheist, concluded: "We are puzzled about where such hatred by Germans of Jews comes from, how much of it is the fault of the Jews. My opinion is that, setting aside inborn German sadism, the desire to murder for the enjoyment of killing, and the lust for gold, I ascribe the entire blame to the Jewish religion. One cannot enjoy the hospitality of other peoples and consider oneself a chosen people, better and wiser...Yes, the Jewish religion has divided us from other people with a Chinese wall, had inculcated in us a psychology of distinctness..." (pp. 171-172; see also p. 151).

Wow, this book of circus posters is amazing! I love the old circus and needed to find good illustrations for an elaborate tattoo. I can't stop flipping through the pages. Anyone will enjoy this book!