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All this time, my friends and colleagues have told me that Bill Clinton was "the most pro-Israel President of all time." They could not have been more WRONG! Reading David Crystal's book has been eye-openning and has underscored how we have allowed people to so easily revise history to suite their personal and political agendas. I commend Mr. Crystal for having the courage and intellectual rigor to find the truth and report on it.

This book is very informative and is a must read for anyone interested in American or Israeli politics. Although the writer may have a bias, he attacked the subject matter very objectively and fairly. Everything in this book appears to be 100% factual. It is also well-written

I knew Clinton was a jerk when it came to domestic politics; but I didn't realize how much damage he had done in the international arena until I read this book. Clinton really put the screw to the Jews; it's amazing how few really know that. I commend the author for teaching me something.

his book is an essential book in the holocaust library and in a general history of WWII library. It is a story of a middle-class Berlin Jewish family that chose to defy relocation to the ghettos of East and survived the war and Hitler's own war on the Jewish people, all the while living and working in Berlin. The author was hiding and fleeing two enemies: the allied bombing and the Nazies. There are details in the book of events inside the Third Reich that I have never read before. Henry Lebrecht's book is well written, suspenseful, and filled with personal and historical anecdotes. The descriptions of the allied bombings of Berlin and of the author's encounters with the Gestapo are nothing but gripping. This book is a monument to the human spirit of survival, and that also includes the Berliners who had to endure daily bombing for months on end. This is a must read for students of WWII.

One last note: The publisher of this book is XLibris, a POD, a publish on demand company. This large and momumental work by Mr. Lebrecht is a sure indication that in the book buisness POD, like indy music in the recording buisness, has come of age and that reviewers, book distributors and book stores had better pay attention; their world is changing.

Defiance: A Life behind Enemy Lines
By Henry Lebrecht

I had the honor of reading the Manuscript of over 1000 pages of this incredible story. The day by day happenings of Henry and his brother as they struggled in the city of Berlin trying to survive in hiding from the Nazi's. I know that my brother in law Henry Lebrecht had a strong desire to get his story on paper, for the world to see how truly evil Hitler was and the misery he caused. Though not everyone had the courage to hide as he did and was lucky enough to survive. This book is one that all students should read in all countries and in all languages. He shows a defiance,and courage of a few people who refused to be defeated. My deep regret is that Henry Lebrecht died in February 2005 and never had the joy of seeing his book published. This is a book that everyone should read.

Anne Lebrecht. Author.

Also recommended: 'Memories of a Forgotten Past' 'Discoveries of a Hidden Past'

I found Dr. Osborne's book to be especially insightful and interesting. I highly recommend it to not just people in the business world, but to others as well. Osborne is a good writer and his book should serve as a a launching pad to understanding the complexities of the corporate world.

An unprecedented story - a comprehensive dissection of an anti-environmental PR campaign based on an almost complete set of leaked public relations files. The tactics exposed are in common use - especially in North America, but rarely see the light of day until many years have passed. Shandwick, one of the top 10 environmental "greenwashers" helped Shell manage bad publicity over it's role in Nigeria. They were hired in 1997 to build support for Timberlands, a state-owned logging company in New Zealand. For two years 5 full time employees ran a comprehensive campaign to discredit the environmentalists, who initially had majority support, and build a positive picture of their logging plans in the eyes of the public. The exposure of these plans, by the initial publication of this book in the fall of 1999 , led in part to the downfall of the NZ government and the cancellation of the Timberlands old growth logging plans.

The book makes use of the leaked documents to illustrate how environmental groups were infiltrated, and attempts made to neutralize them. Details of how sources of funding were targeted, and the use of legal threats or "SLAPP suits". It documents the people who actively assisted the company, as well as those who were unknowingly recruited in support. The setting up and methods of control of supposedly independent front groups is revealed in the leaked PR documents. In North America the "wise use" groups fit this model. The manipulation of the media is detailed. Friendly press were given all-expense paid tours of model logging areas, for which positive publicity was expected. Complaints were sent to the employers of journalists who wrote stories unfavorable to logging.

"Dirty tricks" are exposed. The planting of a fake bomb and the destruction of a tree-sitting platform with a log slung from a helicopter are exposed through subsequent cover ups and attempts to influence an investigation by aviation authorities.

I rate this book highly because of the unique portrait of an anti-environmental campaign, and it's relevance to campaigns in North America.

Maxims and Arrows. Twilight Of the Idols

Questions of Conscience:

37. You run on AHEAD? -- Do you do so as a herdsman? or as an exception? A third possibility would be as a deserter '. . . . FIRST question of conscience.

38. Are you genuine? or only an actor? A representative? or that itself which is represented? --Finally, are you no more than an imitation of an actor . . . . SECOND question of conscience.

40. Are you one who looks on? or who sets to work? -- or who looks away, turns aside. . . .THIRD question of conscience.

41. Do you want to accompany? or go off alone?. . . . One must know WHAT one wants and THAT one wants. --FOURTH question of conscience.

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WTP 910 "Type of my disciples-- To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities--I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished:I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not--that one endures."

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M&A, Twilight

39. THE DISSAPOINTED MAN SPEAKS. --I sought great human beings, I never found anything but APES of their ideal.

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Mixed Opinions and Maxims, Human All Too Human

130. Readers' bad manners. -- A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against the author when he praises his second book at the expense of the first (or vice versa) and then asks the author to be grateful for that.

137. The worst readers.-- The worst readers are those who proceed like plundering soldiers: they pick up a few things they can use, soil and confuse the rest, and blaspheme the whole.
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"Of all writing I love only that which is written
in blood.
Write with blood: and you will
discover that blood is spirit."

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

I went into this book with no real knowledge of Nietzche's writings, and even less about how funny the topic of Christianity could be as told from the Nihilist perspective. I was chuckling more often than not while reading about the history of the Christian faith as he belittles their faith in what he would refer to as a weak and underwhelming God painted in our own image... I look forward to reading more from this brilliant mind and I hope it all proves to be as entertaining as "The Anti Christ".

In this essay Nietzsche denounces Christianity "as the institutionalized negation of the will to live" (as did Adorno in his Negative Dialectics).

For Nietzsche decadent morals, such as the Christian one, refer to an ideal order and make their codes conform to it, not to the reality. But the genesis of an ideal hides human (very human) reasons. Values and categorical imperatives arise from a resentment of weak man towards the reality and life, so Christianity is characterized by the humility's virtue ( that is unconfessed hate against the powerful people and the not so secret will to subject them) and by value of pity (that is in antagonism to all the self-preserving instincts.

The phylosopher deplores Christian morals also because it represents the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation. according to N, only Protestant theologians, defined by Nietzsche "hemiplegic paralysis of Christianity and of reason", could take Kant under their patronage and accept the pernicious idea of a virtue which has its roots in mere respect for the concept of "virtue". Kant's categorical imperative is, for Nietzsche, a dangerous abstraction. It is the idea, developed by a Nihilist embedded in the fumes Christian dogmatism, that regards "pleasure as an objection".


By sharing or not the Nietzsche's ideas, the reader greatly will enjoy the lively style of this excellent writer, "the first immoralist", who all in all had a liking for The Galilean, considered as "heiliger Anarchist" and one and only Christian.

The Cosimo publisher is ripping off other editions of this book. This book has been published by other publishers *with* all the footnotes, but Cosimo strips out all of the editorial material and offers up a second-rate printing.

Please be aware that this refers ONLY to the Cosimo Classics edition of H.L. Mencken's translation of "The Anti-Christ," not to any others.

This is a slipshod ripoff of the 1999 See Sharp Press edition of "The Anti-Christ." First, the "editors" at Cosimo Classics makes two gross errors on the copyright page: 1) They put the original publishing date of the Mencken translation at 1895, when in fact it was published in 1920; 2) They claim copyright of this work which is in the public domain. The kindest terms for these these things are incompetent and sleazy.

Worse, Cosimo omitted the Publisher's Note from the See Sharp edition, which dealt with Mencken's anti-semitic comments in his Introduction. They also omitted ALL of the footnotes from the See Sharp edition, both those of the See Sharp editor and those of Mencken. The only reason for this that seems plausible is that they feared legal action and were too lazy to track down a copy of the original 1920 Knopf edition to check whose footnotes were whose. So, they chose to publish an incomplete version of Mencken's translation rather than go to such small bother.

Their laziness runs so deep that they didn't even bother to scan in the See Sharp edition and then produce their own type. No, they simply reproduced the type from the See Sharp edition while stripping out the footnotes. (Compare the interior pages via "Look Inside the Book" -- they're identical. Same typeface, same line breaks, even the same typos.)

Please buy any other edition of this very good book other than this very sleazy Cosimo Classics edition.

What do phishers gain from their techniques, and how do they steal identities, passwords, and information? Learn to identify the three classes of security attacks, how phishers scour the net for valid email addresses to attack, and how they are able to exploit computer vulnerabilities with Lane James's Phishing Exposed, which will interest programmers, network administrators and legal officers alike. Chapters expose attacks then probe the world of organized phishing gangs and operations to show how phishers operate, and how you can protect your system.

If you're on your way to a security conference this summer, and you'd like to get up to speed on web site abuses and browser design vulnerabilities, this book makes for excellent airplane-reading fare. I say this because Phishing Exposed manages to succeed on two fronts: it is both an instructive technical reference, as well as a surprisingly compelling narrative.

The first is unsurprising -- it is, after all, a Syngress book, and so is typical of technical books from this imprint. The second accomplishment, though, was a pleasant surprise. It's not common that someone as deeply involved in the technologies of network security are also talented writers.

As an example, while documenting the technical characteristics of e-mail delivery, James illustrates example forensic techniques of identifying the home city, working schedule, and handedness of the attacker. It's this mix of CSI-meets-ITSec that makes the book an honest page-turner.

Given this literary attention to narrative and even elements of plot development (especially on the follow-the-breadcrumbs analysis of a seemingly endless series of HTTP redirects), this book illustrates the phishing problem in a way that both technically-oriented defenders and interested "power user" readers will understand and enjoy.

Here are the chapters:

- Chapter 1 Banking On Phishing
- Chapter 2 Go Phish!
- Chapter 3 E-Mail: The Weapon of Mass Delivery
- Chapter 4 Crossing the Phishing Line
- Chapter 6 Malware, Money Movers, and Ma Bell Mayhem!
- Chapter 7 So Long, and Thanks for All the Phish!
395 pages paperback

As others have stated in their reviews, this is the book if you are involved in Internet security either at an ISP, webserver administrator or a security analyst at a large corporation or in law enforcement dealing with cybercrime. Phishing Exposed is also very useful for watch dog individuals on the web who actively report Internet scams to ISPs. It is an eye opener on how phishing scams have gotten more sophisticated in snaring unsuspecting victims' data within the last few years. This book was released in late 2005, however, most of the information is still rather relevant and useful for today for those who are working to minimize Internet fraud. For example, the use of botnets and malware have gained a larger role in the proliferation of phishing scams since this book was published; the author does cover some detail on this newer approach to perpetuating fraud online.

I have pretty much read the entire book, though I read quickly through all the scripting and coding details Lance outlines in his book and the detail takes up quite a few pages. I did enjoy reading it, thus why it only took me about 2 days to get through it. As I come across some of the coding complexities Lance outlines, I will return to this book as a reference.

One criticism I have is there is no glossary of terms. Lance uses many many technical terms, a few here and there that I didn't know and when I did read them, sometimes I forgot what they stood for.

I will point out a few highlights which may be useful for some of what is covered:

Email Headers
The author provides us information on how to read email headers we receive in spam from phishers who are just a subset of spammers anyway. This is quite useful for those still learning how to decode email headers line by line. Though there are a few things the author leaves out regarding explaining the breakdown of headers, he covers this seldom-covered subject quite well. Most of the samples of spam we have here are Lance's own fake phishing spams, similar to examples you will read in the scripting sections.

Scripting
The author tells us about CSS (Cross Site Scripting) - Cross site scripting (also known as XSS) occurs when a web application gathers malicious data from a user. The data is usually gathered in the form of a hyperlink which contains malicious content within it. The user will most likely click on this link from another website, instant message, or simply just reading a web board or email message [...]. This part of the book will take me longer to grasp as my own scripting knowledge is not very strong.

Lance covers the scripting exploits in creating phishing websites in regards to DHTML, DOM, SSL, JavaScript, redirects, and covers HTTP responses (common status codes) via user-agents. Lance uses his own made-up phishing sites to demonstrate how these scripts work. Status codes example: such as 404 file not found.

Money Laundering
Finally, the author also covers phisher money laundering in chapter (6) "Chapter 6 Malware, Money Movers, and Ma Bell Mayhem!" of the book. Phishers use mules to forward the funds for them (mules have bank accounts setup to accept the money and transfer it elsewhere: sometimes the "mules" do not even realize they are participating in illegal activity); this is similar to what drug dealers do to launder their money. He also covers caller ID spoofing in this chapter. This area is probably generally less well known, as it is more of the bank side of things of how the stolen money is transfered from account to account.

Phishing Exposed is a powerful analysis of the many severe problems present in Web-based activities. Phishing Exposed is another threat-centric title from Syngress. The book presents research conducted by Secure Science Corporation as a way to understand the adversary. The author demonstrates his own attacks against multiple popular e-commerce sites as a way to show how phishers accomplish their goals. I was surprised by the extent to which the author could repeatedly abuse high-profile financial sites, and for that reason I highly recommend reading Phishing Exposed.

The book begins with an overview of the phishing problem. Three basic phishing techniques (impersonation, forwarding, and popup) are explained. The mechanics of email and HTTP are also described. The heart of the book appears in chapters 4 and 5, where almost 270 pages are devoted to the author's assessment and abuse of banking sites. I was shocked by the author's ability to repeatedly take advantage of vulnerabilities in client and server software and configuration. These chapters made me wonder if it is possible for an average end user -- or even a skilled technical user -- running popular operating systems and browsers to survive these sorts of high-end attacks.

Ch 6 featured some innovative material on subverting caller ID by using Voice over IP and other methods. I also appreciated the historical perspective in that chapter.

My only real concern is that the author devoted lots of material to his own attacks, and not as much to attacks by real phishers. I would have liked additional details on how to detect and potentially defeat these attacks using network-based and proxy-based means.

Incidentally, reviews by "relatives" should be considered suspect, although reviews with the title "inadequate and unoriginal" should be completely ignored. Reviews like that demonstrate another instance where that particular "reviewer" has once again skimmed the text and not spent any time reading the book. Phishing Exposed is incredibly original -- and that's why I've given it five stars, despite some rough editing from Syngress.

Phishing quickly exploded from a nuisance to a full-fledged threat in the middle of 2005. Weaknesses in email, combined with flaws in Web security and with a little social engineering mixed in make for an effective tool to get the attention of users and lure unsuspecting people into the trap.

It didn't take long for the organized crime elements of the malware underground to recognize the power and efficiency of this tool. Phishing is a virtual poster-child for the convergence of malware because it is a malicious tool that helps tie viruses, worms, spam, Trojans and other malware together and get them delivered effectively to their designated targets.

While a book like Phishing: Cutting The Identity Theft Line is aimed at managers and executives and users, this book is more along the lines of Inside The Spam Cartel in the way it dives deeper to look at the secrets and techniques and explore the underground that makes it work.

While the content is more technical, James writing is engaging. Phishing Exposed is an excellent resource for developers, specifically Web developers, and for security experts to understand more about how and why phishing works, rather than just what it is and how to detect and defend against it.

Good music, good transcription, what else do you want from a Slayer Songbook? Good price? Got that too...

There's no doubt Alvin McEwen has done a remarkable job of cataloging the methodologies of certain conservative, evangelical Christians in presenting their case contra homosexual behavior in this fairly well written, self-published book. In that regard, it is a helpful tool, I suppose. However, there is a definite shallowness to his analysis which, along with a number of misspelled words not caught in editorial work, distract from the value of the book.

From a historical point of view, the book's worth adding to one's collection. If you're looking for something you probably didn't know already or for some new insight into the "why" as much as the "how" of certain religious positions regarding homosexual behavior, you won't find it here, unfortunately.

I just finished reading Alvin McEwen's Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters: Exposing the Lies of the Anti-Gay Industry. It is a fantastic book. It is very depressing to hear how gays and lesbians in this country have been lied about so much that even laws have been changed because of these lies. McEwen has certainly written a good expose on the anti-gay industry and 'Industry' certainly a good name for it. People like Lou Sheldon (Traditional Values Coalition), Tony Perkins (Family Research Council) and many others have made quite a bit of money lying about gays and lesbians. This should be required reading for all gays and lesbians and it should be required reading for legislators who are being duped by these so-called religious people. It is horrifying to read about the endless manipulations that these so-called religious people use to get their ways and persecute the LGBTQ community. McEwen has written an excellent book and judging by all the anti-gay news that will be coming out in the upcoming elections, a second volume will certainly be needed.

I cannot really recommend this book as one to read and learn from easily. Maybe as a reference book, but not as a stand alone reference book, for although it does contain a great deal of information, some of it is incomplete. This book is still a possible candidate for a nutrition library, since nobody has all the answers, and since it is often possible to find the solution to a health/aging problem in a collection of books and web sources. A well stocked nutrition library is therefore a good idea.

I have doubts, however. I am reasonably knowledgeable about nutrition, and found nothing much new in the book, apart from the interesting recommendation in Chapter 8 that we juice enormous quantities of vegetables to get enough chlorophyll to detoxify the body. (Many reviewers have complained that the author did not say which vegetables to juice. But this complaint is probably not fair. Chlorophyll is GREEN, and the greener the vegetable the more chlorophyll it has. So the author obviously means that you juice any green veggies you happen to like, but only vegetables you would normally eat in quantity, like cabbage, kale, brussels sprouts, lettuce, etc.--certainly NOT rhubarb leaves, which are poisonous. The author is probably only guilty of assuming his readers know what chlorophyll is.) I don't know if the chlorophyll juice works or not. The idea was new to me. I may be willing to go along with the author and give it a cautious try, in smaller amounts to begin with. Since veggies are good for me, the veggie juice is not likely to do me any harm.

But overall, this is not a well written book. Eighty pages of testimonials, in italics, about the author's anti-aging program was just too much, and I just skipped over them. The book is not well organized either, and he does not lay out the promised anti-aging nutritional plan. Instead he just gives us long lists of foods, supplements, and even drugs, and activities, and the benefits associated with each. You couldn't possibly try them all. And in some cases, if you were on medication, you would be wise to consult a doctor first. For example, grapefruit and grapefruit juice, which he recommends for lowering cholesterol, can enhance and affect the action of many drugs, which he does not mention. Echinacea, which he recommends for enhancing the immune system, should only be taken for short periods, which he again does not mention. Thus the book is also incomplete in its information. It has possible value as a reference book in conjunction with other similar books.

I love Gary Null's radio program. It's so inspirational that I bought this book hoping for more of the same. Sadly, I found it one of the worst organized books I ever seen, badly edited, and full of pages and pages of superfluous "testimonials" (literally over fifty pages of insubstantial fan letters!) I'm sorry to write this because I am a fan of Gary's and appreciate what he does on the radio but I feel compelled to warn the prospective buyer away from this book.

I bought this book after seeing Gary Null speaking on a PBS TV program. I was so impressed with his knowledge and the hope he offered in the anti-aging remedies he discussed and other valuable information he was offering in this book. I just couldn't wait to read it. Unfortunately, after I purchased this book, I was very disappointed. My strongest impression about the book was the very disorganized way it was prepared. There is a serious lack of appropriate catagorization and sequential arrangement of subject matter, topics, etc. It was hard for me to believe that Gary Null had anything to do with the preparation of the book. I thought he had just mistakenly designated an unprofessional, inexperienced person to take on that responsibility for him. After approximately 3 years, I'm still trying to understand his anti-aging program/s and the approach of implementing them. Its hard to make sense of a bunch of information randomly thrown together. Since then I have found valuable books with practicle approaches for emplementing the anti-aging programs in them. I recommend The Perricone Prescription, and The Wrinkle Cure by Nicholas Perricone M.D.. He has recently published additional anti-aging books, as well.

A good book with an effective writing style. He's classified food into different categories which makes it very easy to understand. As the doctor suggested I made soya a regular part of my diet. I now drink 'soy ff e e' a caffeine free substitute for regular coffe that I found on the net at www.S o y co f f e e.c o m, which is extremely tasty too. Soya is supposed to be highly effective against Parkinson's disease. Dr. Null advocates an exercise program and an organic vegetarian diet in conjunction with herb and vitamin supplements to detoxify the body.

Null pretty obviously knows his stuff, even if I can't always agree with certain of his stances, but there was a startlingly bad error regarding a USRDA of a substance which could really mess up one's metabolism if one followed this book. I sent an e-mail to him to complain of the incompetence of the copy editing/proofreading some weeks ago, but he or his office did not deign to acknowledge the error. He will be fortunate if he does not hear from someone's attorney or health professional on this matter, and I will now take any info from Dr Null with a large grain of non-iodized Celtic sea salt.