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Hear his music and you are fascinated!! Read his songs and you are fascinated from the very "deep" from his songs. And this book gives you much informationen about "THE BOSS". He was THE BOSS, he IS THE BOSS and he will EVER BE THE BOSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got this book for Christmas and I was very hopeful that it would tell me 'The Bruce Story" since I didn't really know it. Well, it did and it didn't. Not knowing much about Springsteen's life or career and knowing only the music, reading this book, which consists of chronological news items, interviews and articles that appeared in ROLLING STONE, I got an interesting overview of his career and the way the public's perception of him has changed. The book is almost as interesting for the things it doesn't say, for instance, it says virtually nothing about the biggest event of Springsteen's career: his bitter two year battle to end his contract with Producer Mike Appel. (that is actually covered better in an out of print book you can try and order here called DOWN THUNDER ROAD) Also, his much publicized extra-marital affair with his band-member and current wife rates about 4 lines. Also, one article starts off telling us in a painfully beautiful reminisence about his early years and drops off just when things were getting interesting, way before he got signed. Overall, this book actually shows what a poor job ROLLING STONE has done over the years on all matters BRUCE. It's a good read - a must-have for completists but NOT where to begin if you have just gotten bit.

PRETTY GOOD - IT'S A CLIFFHANGER. ANYTHING MORE IT'S RATINGS WOULD GO DOWN. OTHERWISE A GOOD INTERPRETATION OF THE SITUATION - COULD HAVE BEEN A TEENY BIT BETTER

A VERY GOOD BOOK...A MUST READ...IT VERY WELL DEPICTS THE ARTICLES & HOW AMERICA GREW SINCE THE 1700S'. A REAL WORTHWHILE BOOK - MY SUGGESTION-BUY IT - PERFECT FOR THE HISTORIAN IN UR LIFE

In the book, Fever 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson takes us on a trip through the eyes of a fourteen year old girl named Matilda. Matilda is living in a time where a plague is passing through here city. Many people flee the city, and many others are in line to be buried in the cemeteries. The "Fever" is spreading rapidly and taking hold of Matilda's loved ones. Matilda has had a dream to turn the Cook Coffeehouse into the best business in Philadelphia. Her plans soon change when Matilda is trapped. Not only did the fever strike the coffeehouse but it stuck her too. Now Matilda has to fight to stay alive. Will she make it?
I enjoyed this book because it is so thrilling, and not to mention sad. This book can teach you to cherish what you have, and also it shows you how hard one little girl fights to stay alive. When I read this book I put myself in Matilda's shoes and thought of what I would do if I were her. The truth is I have no idea what I would have done if I was Matilda. So as you read this book put yourself in that little fourteen year old girls body, and think about what you would do if you were the one fighting to stay alive. Could you make it?
If you like thrilling, hanging on the edge of your seats type of books, then this book is for you. I do indeed recommend this book for children and adults. I don't think you have to be any certain age to read it. Just have fun, read your heart out. But most importantly don't just read it act like it was you who the fever chose to hit.

This book was an OK book, but it was still good and you should read it. It had it's ups and downs. Yet, it was very strong and powerful, makes you feel like you're in the time of 1793. TAKE AND READ!!!!

The article, although positive in its general approach, looks pretty pale when compared to the work it attempts to review. It is a pity that it appears under the same title as the excellent little dictionary it tries to analyze.

The review is prominently positive. However, some observations are made about what the dictionary could have been or could have included, but did not. Then the same observations backpedal and the reviewer says that those things that "could have" were not part of the dictionary scope or objectives. Then again, if it is right for its size and it meets its objectives, what is the use of pointing out what was not supposed to be? This review sounds like "well, yes, I like it, but I must point out something negative, even if it does not make much sense...to make it sound like a review..."

Bearnard Bear is a bike messenger who relys on his red whistle to let people know he is coming through. One day he can't find his whistle anywhere. He thinks it might have been stolen. Have no fear The High Rise Private Eyes, Bunny Brown and Jack Jones are on the case! Will they be able to solve this mystery? Find out in the #7 edition of The High Rise Private Eyes!

The book was easy to read. The story line moved at a fast pace keeping the readers attention well.


We would recommed this to others. If children have read other books in the High Rise Private Eye series they will enjoy this one as well.

Jack (a raccoon), and Bunny (a rabbit) are private detectives, so they couldn't be happier when a bike-messenger bear asks for their help in finding his lost whistle. As the two private eyes search for clues, Bunny tries to get his partner, Jack, to concentrate on the task at hand: finding bear's whistle. But as time goes by, it is Jack's wacky ideas that lead the two P.I.'s to solve the case.

In this wonderful new book from THE HIGH-RISE PRIVATE EYES book series, Cynthia Rylant sets up a wonderful foundation for new readers to delve into a great mystery. Bunny is a cute character who is serious, and very focused, but it's Jack who will win the hearts of readers, for his zany ideas are hilarious, and will have even parents laughing out loud. While the illustrations contained on almost every page are wonderful, and will keep even the pickiest readers reading. A must-have.

Erika Sorocco
Book Review Columnist for The Community Bugle Newspaper

Miss. Farewell's book gives a practical and organized overview of all of the attributes necessary to becoming a travel writer. She explains different types of articles and then gives examples that help to further illustrate what she is describing.

I've marked up and highlighted this book; it's a keeper. For anyone just starting out in the travel writing industry, Susan Farewell gives a great introduction to the way the industry works. This book even includes tips and examples on how to write different types of articles and query letters.

Unfortunately, this book is a little weak on information about marketing yourself and selling your articles. Depsite this, it's a very informative and useful book, as well as a great addition to the writer's library.

Laurence Weinbaum's essay addresses the question as to whether or not the prewar Zionist Jabotinsky had anticipated the Holocaust, at least in part. For some time, Poles had been concerned by the fact that Polish perpetrators against Jews are always identified by nationality, while the much-greater German perpetrators against Jews usually are not. Weinbaum acknowledges this fact: "Critics of Jabotinsky also emphasize that, at the end of the day, it was the Nazis (we dare not call them `Germans,' if we elect to adhere to the prevailing canon) who posed the real danger and that Jabotinsky failed to recognize this." (p. 28)

While accepting the premise of unilateral Polish guilt at Jedwabne, Weinbaum is careful to put it in both numerical and geographical perspective: "The Poles are generally not cast in the same league as the Ukrainians, Letts, Hungarians, Romanians, Slovaks, Croats, etc. There was no Polish collaborationist government to work with the Germans...One cannot ignore the fact that the massacres that were perpetrated by Poles were confined to a certain region of northeastern Poland, which was a stronghold of the Endecja..." (p. 29). How about another explanation? Jedwabne-type incidents were limited to northeast Poland because it had earlier been a hotbed of Jewish-Soviet collaboration. By contrast, in Soviet-occupied southeastern Poland, Jewish-Polish conflicts had been overshadowed by Polish-Ukrainian and Jewish-Ukrainian ones. Western Poland, of course, had been occupied by the Germans.

Weinbaum repeats the standard line about Jewish-Soviet collaboration being driven by fear of the Nazis. In actuality, the east-Poland Jewish fear of the Nazis was minimal in 1939. To the contrary: the east-Poland Jews tended to see the Germans as a cultured people. Some even voluntarily left the Soviet zone to go to the German zone. Finally, the mass shootings and gassings of Jews were not to begin for nearly another two years!

To his credit, Weinbaum condemns the "careless (if not malicious)" references to "Polish death camps." He also chides his fellow Jews for baselessly supposing that the Germans had erected the death camps on Polish soil because they had expected the assistance of Poles. (p. 30)

In common with many others, Weinbaum complains that more Jews would've survived had fewer Poles denounced them. He forgets the fact that denouncers also included Polish-speaking Germans (Volksdeutsche), Ukrainians, and other Jews. Furthermore, there is also another side to this story. Had more Jews heeded Polish warnings, and escaped the ghettos, that many more Jews could have been saved. In fact, a large fraction, perhaps majority, of Jews that did so ended up surviving the war. Those Jews who stayed in the ghettos perished almost to the person.

Finally, the Holocaust was not caused by the fact that gentiles and Jews each saw the other as not "his own kind", but because Hitler blamed "international Jewry" for starting all wars, and sought to destroy Europe's Jews collectively in accordance with this belief.

This book is a reprint of two novels in one by Patricia Rice.

The first is MAD MARIA'S DAUGHTER. Daphne Templeton refused to marry the only gentleman who asked for her hand. This shocked Society, however, they should have known Daphne would. After all, Daphne WAS the daughter of Mad Maria. Daphne decided to retreat to the country and ended up helping a highwayman.

The second is THE GENUINE ARTICLE. Lady Marian Oglethorp needed to wed a fortune to save her family from ruin. She targeted Darley. But his best friend, Reginald Montague, was out to stop her. Problem was that Reginald was falling for her too.

**** Both of these stories are reprints. Both of these stories are VERY good. (Personally, I believe the second tale to be better than the first.) You won't go wrong by purchasing this book! ****

While I didn't read "The Genuine Article", I would like to write a review of "Mad Maria's Daughter," which I give a solid 4-Star rating. Mad Maria's Daughter is fun, exciting--it's Regency with a twist!

Miss Daphne Templeton owes her reputation to her strange mother. Even though she is prone to a few temper tantrums herself, Daphne certainly doesn't deserve to be labeled as eccentric. To flee the stigmas of society, Daphne travels to Devon to live with her aunt. On her way... there is turbulence. She is nabbed by a masked highwayman (who has earned himself the rep of being the local "Robin Hood"). She loses her ring and a few coins--and demands he escort her home!

Later, Miss Templeton meets Lord Griffin, Gordon.. and can't help but think there's something familar about him. Is it the voice? Is it the size of him? Surely this dashing gentleman couldn't be.. the highwayman?! Are they one and the same... or does he have a twin?

Of course, I don't want to spoil it for you. There are many twists and turns in the book, a few laughs, and a whole lot of romance. The characters are loveable, Daphne has a lot of spunk, and the highwayman is very alluring. Rhys, a secondary character, also brought a smile to my face. There is even what I'd call a "surprise ending."

I don't know about the second book, but this Patricia Rice book is a keeper! It would be worth looking into merely for the first 222 pages!

All business managers should read this book so as not to reinvent the marketing wheel. Great, classic marketing insights.

This is a must-read book for all marketing professionals and students. It brings the finest articles ever published by great authors like Theodore Levitt and Philip Kotler. Inludes the all-time classic "Marketing Myopia ".

I wish that this book explained more about each article, but the stuff they put in was also important. I don't regret buying this book by any means, but I like other books in the series.

This is a basic overview of the 13 Articles of Faith and what they mean to us as Latter Day Saints. Each Article of Faith is included plus illustrations and explanations of each concept, such as revelations like the Word of Wisdom, putting the 13th Article of Faith into simpler concepts like being kind, doing service, and being honest, as well as a short intro about the background of the Articles of Faith. All my children (ages 2 through 9) love this book as well as the other in the series. I plan on buying the others as we can.