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I have just read this book and it's excellent. Mr. Walker gives great tips on how to become a better speaker. Also, he lets the reader know that if someone wants to become a better speaker, the person needs to make a lifetime commitment to it. Anyone wanting the basics on giving a speech should read this book. But only do so if you are serious about improving your public speaking.

T.J. Walker is the very best of his breed. His advice, based on decades of experience, is sharp, insightful, accessible and immediately applicable. His books, CDs and his personal coaching have been invaluable to me and my business.

Presentation Training A-Z is the #1 book I've found on this topic and I recommend it highly to beginners who want to learn the basics of good presentation skills, regular speakers who want to take themselves to the next level, as well as expert presenters who are going for the gold!

T.J. Walker's Presentation Training A-Z takes the mystery...and the terror...out of making presentations. More importantly, it made my realize I'm not the hot shot speaker I thought I was. With a straightforward, practical style, T.J. offers pearls of wisdom and experience on how to move from good to GREAT with your presentations. Now, whenever I have one coming up, I hit the sections that address the weaknesses from my last presentation and fine tune performance. Response to my presentations has become much more enthusiastic and requests for speaking have picked up so much that I'm now charging more. Thanks to T.J.,I have reason to be comfortable in front of an audience and no one has to know my dog-eared copy of Presentation Training A-Z is in my briefcase.
Roger Landry MD

In a world that is over-crowded with Information, Mr TJ Walker's simple yet lucid style of preseneting a fairly complex subject comes as a refresher! Goes well beyond the plethora of 'how to ' books, thus creating a new bench-mark.
His ability to convince the reader, that this, is an opportunity to combine 'Substance and Style', goes down rather well, with effective examples. The Author's ablity to enable the reader 'experience' his examples and test the methodology of this art and science of story telling makes it compelling and extremely readable.
A must read for pro's who want to 'make it' in life!and pass the 'Water-cooler' test that he so clearly enunciates!

After reading Walker's excellent Media Training A-Z, I decided to see if he had any other interview or presentation resource materials. I was happy to find Presentation Training written in the same easy-to-follow style, packed with tips. There is relatively little overlap between the 2 books, though they do complement each other. I also liked the up-to-the-minute topical references that make the book feel extremely current and relevant. Another very handy reference.

Great European Novel, The language is Croatian, not Serbo Croatian. Town and country he is writing about is Zagreb and Croatia. The characters are unfogetable (Boba, Kyriales and others). I read this book about 100 times during the past 24 years. Make yourself a favour, read it slowly! Enoy!

The early 20th century Croatian novelist Miroslav Krleza is far less well known in this country than, say, Bosnian novelist Ivo Andric or Croatian journalist and novelist Slavenka Drakulic, but reading this excellent book convinces me that he is far superior to the latter and almost in the class of the former. "The Return of Philip Latinowicz" tells the story of an aging and doubting painter who returns from cosmopolitan Europe to his small Croatian home town, both to retreat from current problems and to confront lingering uncertainties and resentments from his youth. The atmosphere, as the reader from the Netherlands writes, is wonderfully Dostoevskian in places; the characters are drawn unforgettably (at times with humor, at others with pathos); the story moves slowly at the beginning but becomes a sort of psychological thriller by the end. This is a very impressive book that deserves wide readership.

Just another great classic from the hand of the greatest coroatian writer.Like his early works, this book represent a modern style in his best way. A must read!

Unfortunately, only two novels of Krleza's have been translated into English, which does not even come near to doing justice to the volumes of novels, stories, plays, poems and essays this multi-talented writer has produced. The reviewer below is incorrect in saying Krleza is "almost" in the class of Andric. Krleza far surpasses Andric, and this can be sensed in "The Return of Filip Latinovicz." I highly recommend this and esp. "On the Edge of Reason."

This novel, rammed with ideas, bulging with imagination, shows fierceness and intensity of feeling characteristic of a slavic temperament. The Croatian writer, although sharing certain similarities with russian giant Dostoyevsky, has created a radiating, mind-boggling existential drama, soaked in regional folklore, yet, deeply resonating with universal verities.

Very interesting & informative! Familiar saints & those less-known are brought to life through the writings of Cynthia Cavnar. I also thought "A Note to the Reader" was a most valuable lesson on the process leading to sainthood. Since I have been living in Germany for the past 3 years, the book made those who are saints or on their way to sainthood that lived in this area during the period of WWII, a real inspiration. This book is not only a great reference book but also a most enjoyable read.

Cindy Cavnar does it again! She has a knack for finding the most unusual,inspiring facts about the saints, particularly tales of their everyday lives that often mirror our own. Her ability to weave accurate information and fascinating detail into short, easy to read anecdotes makes the book consistently enjoyable.

Very interesting & informative! Familiar saints & those less-known are brought to life through the writings of Cynthia Cavnar. I also thought "A Note to the Reader" was a most valuable lesson on the process leading to sainthood. Since I have been living in Germany for the past 3 years, the book made those who are saints or on their way to sainthood that lived in this area during the period of WWII, a real inspiration. This book is not only a great reference book but also a most enjoyable read.

Cynthia Cavnar has made a valuable contribution to present-day readers whether they already are fans of the saints or newly interested persons with a desire to learn more about those Christians who have gone before us establishing the rich tradition of the church. She has done much research and does an excellent job with a balanced and believable presentation. She searches for the "truth" about the saints, neither neglecting nor overemphasizing their humanity as well as their spirituality and the mysticism surrounding their lives. This book is informative and inspirational. It can be a valuable resource for all church related educational programs as well as spiritually rewarding for the individual reader.

This is the kind of book you can read a little at a time, picking places at random, and have an "inspiration" each time. Whether you happen on an established Saint, a "Servant of God", "Venerable" or "Blessed" person (all explained simply in the forward to the book), you'll be captivated by the short biographies of these people.

The variety is exceptional: familiar names you may want to refresh your memory on, and you're sure to find several brand new stories, as well. From many countries, all walks of life, and all centuries, the aquaintances you make here will renew your faith in humanity, and boost your own hope for the world. I found quite a few, too, who challenged me, and reminded me that I, too, am called to live a life for others.

Vocabulary is suitable for older high school students, young adults and adults; those folks would have to re-tell the stories for younger readers.

I'm thinking of making this my "book for Lent"--it will fit into the few minutes I can steal morning, waiting for appointments and before falling asleep. And what better company could I find for the long Lenten journey?

This is a hugely impressive book. It's accessible, informative and well written. A must have if the area interests you.

Mickey Z is one of the best left wing writers (and a great poet) working right now. Everyone should pre-order this book and tell their friends. To put it in a simpler way - Mickey Z is more fun to read then most of the radical but dry books about Bush's war propaganda - and is also far more hard hitting - but as accessible than the troika of mainstream liberals suddenly declaring themselves anti-imperialist In many ways, he is comparable to a Brooklyn version of Paul Virillio - he sees through everything, but instead of writing like a professor of architecture, his style is that of Bukowski filtered through historical materialism. His writing is witty enough for a high school kid who's cynical about politcs but sophisticated enough for seasoned analysts like Michael Parenti.

The vast majority of citizens of the United States are either unaware or don't care about the magnitude and regularity of the crimes committed by their government in their name. They rather think their government is a "light unto the world" going about its business, wishing nothing other than to be left alone to pursue its peaceful American dream. Whether this is due to the disingenuousness of those citizens or the effectiveness of these spins is debatable. This book is more of a too often obscure but important documentation proving the United States government continues to be, and with occasional competition always has been, the greatest threat to world peace. It serves also as a look into the modus operandi of the mafia enterprise known as America.

Mickey's historical reach encompasses with equal clarity events as disparate as George Washington's racism justifying the slaughter of Natives by labeling them savages and brutes, to the current campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, and beyond. Yet his narrative is vivifying rather than ponderous. He touches upon many important U.S. historical epochs to prove even more than what the worst cynic might have suspected: the whole history of this country is conceived and steeped in bloodshed and suffering - and spin. From the arrival of Columbus in 1492 right up to the current imperial crusades in Iraq, Afghanistan, Colombia, Israel/Palestine, and, given the nature of spin and the complicity of the corporate media, who knows where all else, U.S. policy has been one imperial aggrandizement after another.

The Seven Deadly Spins are used to turn America's long historical penchant for war, brutality, and ethnic cleansing into something other than what it really is, often its very opposite, to justify it, and allow its perpetuation. Part of the aim of spin is to glorify war as the triumphing of the quasi-religious good, the United States and its actions, over the foreboding evil, the enemy du jour, in the eternal Manichean struggle between the forces of light and darkness. Another part is to sanitize the wanton bloodshed of countless innocents and other atrocities. For the charade to continue, these must be whitewashed as unfortunate accidents, or justified as necessary for a greater good, when they are acknowledged at all.

Vietnam and the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans are the most obvious of many examples of American rapine. Far too many are quite forgiving of these and a long list of like outrages. As Mickey quotes Robert Jensen as saying, "In affluent societies, one should expect a lot of `willed ignorance' from people. If one's privilege is based on maintaining the empire, it's not surprising that some people won't want to know about what the empire really does."

Although the information is available, fewer bother to learn about U.S. complicity in other imperial intrigues, like the assassination of Allende in Chile and the installation of the brutal Pinochet in his stead, for example. Likewise the U.S.-backed Suharto and his multiple genocides in Indonesia and East Timor. The assassination of Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954 was accomplished at Eisenhower's behest, ushering in four decades of terror resulting in 200,000 murders. Mickey touches upon these shameful but hardly anomalous chapters in American history, as well as countless assaults on Cuba over a century, 32 interventions into Latin America between 1989 and 1934 alone, along with interventions into Grenada, Somalia, Serbia, Kosovo, the Congo, Panama, Russia in 1919, the calculated indifference to the Rwandan genocide contrary to international law, and the reality of the often surreptitious motives animating U.S. policy in World Wars I and II. Michey doesn't so much cover old territory in describing these shameful chapters in U.S. foreign policy as he does detail the perennial spin that is used to justify, slant, and hide them.

Mickey's prose is inimitable, terse, buoying and accessible. We observe along with him the rule in U.S. political affairs, conscious and deliberate, which invariably gives lie to the conventional history. Illustrative is President James Polk unilaterally provoking a war with Mexico in 1946, which, as intended, eventuated in U.S. annexation of what are now Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, California, and part of Colorado. Mickey cites Teddy Roosevelt, enshrined on Mount Rushmore with all that's good and decent about America, as saying, "I should welcome any war, for I think this country needs one." The sinking of the Maine in Havana Harbor, probably the result of an accidental explosion of its coal-fired engine, soon served as the pretext for war with Spain. This short war in turn led to the U.S. invasion of the Philippines, and the merciless slaughter of 600,000 defenseless Filipinos.

One of many virtues of this book is the sources from which it draws, and with whom Mickey's writing deserves to be classed: Noam Chomsky, William Blum and Howard Zinn are the most noteworthy. Equally as important voices as Paul Atwood, Mark Zepezauer, Ward Churchill, and Kenneth C. Davis are also cited. All draw a similar picture. As Paul Atwood puts it, "While we claim to be a generous, humane society, I see us as cold-blooded, selfish, increasingly narcissistic and out of touch with a broader reality. Though half the population of the planet goes to bed hungry every night, we Americans are grossly overfed. There is a direct connection between these two phenomena but we are in denial about it."

"Professional iconoclast..."
--New York Newsday

"Political provocateur..."
--Time Out New York

"Acerbic wit and dogged interrogation of accepted wisdom...matches Chomsky in breadth of source material and in the scalding heat of his moral outrage..."
--New Internationalist

"Iconoclastic and bold..."
--Howard Zinn

"Bukowski filtered through historical materialism..."
--Jordy Cummings

"Very similar to the stuff Emma Goldman was saying back in 1898..."
--Chuck Munson, Infoshop News

"...encyclopedic knowledge..."
--Greg Elich

"Has a sharp eye which sees what most miss..."
--Joe Connelly, editor of Veg News

"In the tradition of Zinn and Galeano..."
--David Barsamian, Alternative Radio

"Mickey Z. rocks!"
--Mark Zepezauer

"How can one be so sweet and yet so fierce?"
--Sander Hicks, founder of Soft Skull Press

"You write well; it's too bad you're on the wrong side."
--Peter F. Vallone, Jr., New York City Council Member, District 22

This is a must read for anyone that believes the government goes to war only for humanitarian and defense related reasons. Z in his direct, hilarious style exposes the fraud we call American democracy, through hard facts and clear prose. Buy this book for your relative or friend that wants to understand why you question everything. Mickey is their gateway to dissent.

I'm thrilled with this easy-to-follow book. Lots of photos of a "real Mom" signing useful things. It's broken into activities: around the house, out and about, toys, games, daily routines, crafts and the alphabet. There are descriptions on how to execute the signs. I'm looking for more books by the author. This one got me started with my 7-month-old...and I want to learn more! Maybe in a couple months the little guy will sign what he's thinking about (I can hardly wait!).

It is a very nice book, lot of words and ideas where to use those words

I just finished reading this wonderful little book. I am a big fan of Monta's first book and used signing with both my daughters. In reading "Sign, Sing and Play" it was great to know that my second daughter did a lot of the same things Monta's second child did when it came to signing... understanding signs, but not signing back to me. Now that I've tried several of the games and songs with my baby, she's signing like crazy! Thank you, Monta!

I love this set. But, don't buy it if you have already bought Baby Sign Language Flash Cards: A 50-Card Deck plus Dear Friends card because they contain the same cards. Buy one or the other, they are great. I'm giving the other set to my MiL to use with my 5mo neice. Soon my daughter will be able to communicate with her cousin. I look forward to the day.

This book helped me to go beyond the basics of signing and start having some fun! My 11 month old daughter's signing has accelerated dramatically from many of Monta Briant's suggested activites. Excellent book!

This book was published too soon to contain any details from THE SWORD OF KHALESS (DS9), TRIALS AND TRIBBLE-ATIONS (DS9), FLASHBACK (VOYAGER), & the FIRST CONTACT film. Otherwise, it's a great book with alternate titles and references to all of the classic & cartoon episodes and films

i thought that the original copy was better with the little chart that helps find certain episodes, but all in all i love this book.

For those of you who liked the original "Fan Produced" edition and/or the 1977 professionally produced one, YOU ARE GONNA LOVE THIS ONE! BJO has completely revised the book, not only including info from the moveis, but also info about both the live-action and annimated seriese from Gene Roddenberrys and others files that she did not have access to before. The book has got to have at least 10 times the info in the 1977 edition and she has also corrected the errors that cropped up in the older editions and added a lot more "fan art" than before. I can not emphasise this enough! This is a must have for all trekkies. Even Gene Goddenberry himself use the oleder version of this book to keep track of his universe. The star trek Encycolpedia pales in comparison to detali to this one. so if you love your Classic Trek, order it now.

When Bjo Trimble did her first CONCORDANCE in the 1970's it was FANTASTIC,a really good book that covered everything at that time.Now,with the final STAR TREK film done, there is the closing out of the great STAR TREK era and this book covers it very well.There are other good STAR TREK history books,but this is one that stands out.This is a NEEDED part of ANY STAR TREK collection,a well done job.

...but be aware that this book is from 1976, so you will only get information on the original series from the 1960s and the often neglected (but often bizarre) animated series from 1973-74. So you won't find any info on any of the movies (since the first Star Trek movie wouldn't be until 1979), The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, or Voyager. This is basically those who enjoy the original and the animated Star Trek. The 1976 version of Star Trek Concordance came with a gimmick cover, which you use as an index for each episode, stardate, and other things, and it guides you to what page the episode and stardate are. In the book itself is a description of each and every episode, both the original and the animateds. Description of the cast members are also given in every episode. Near the back is a glossary giving details to each and every character such as Spock, Dr. McCoy, Kirk, Sulu, Uhura, Scotty, etc. (and who played them, like Shatner, Nimoy, Takei, Doohan, etc.), as well as discriptions of various alien life like Vulcans, Romulans, Klingons, etc. The glossary even goes as so far as describing terms that might be a bit over some people's head. They even mention haggis, since there was a famous episode where Scotty said, "The haggis is in the fire now". In the very back is Star Trek fan art, where various people submitted their own artwork of different Star Trek characters and aliens. It's a great and useful book, if you bear in mind when this was published. If you're looking for info on the Star Trek movies, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, you will obviously need much more updated material.

People who are headed toward their retirement years will be especially uplifted by this one. I would recommend Dr. Peale's books to those who are interested in the "New Age" type "Secrets" venues as he knew the secret a long time ago. Ever so often, both my daughter & I, re-read his timeless treasure, "The Power of Positive Thinking"; a book my father's generation read and just as pertinent, today, as ever. Read them, give them as gifts for all ages. They will rejuvenate the mind.

Having just read a 1957 copy of this book, it is absolutely amazing how much American life back then is still so applicable today. Dr. Peale's words of wisdom are skillfully set out by experience and example, personal and otherwise. Many of the characters identified in the book are still living. Dr. Peale candidly offers healthy, inspirational and spiritual techniques to heal the wounds of everyday living with class and resolve leaving the reader to truly feel that life is not a problem, but rather that life is a solution.

Dr. Peale starts out reminding us that Jesus said He came to give us life and to give it more abundantly! (See John 10:10). From that Scripture he goes on to tell us that "You can do no more than you believe you can." Actions begin with the seed of belief. This book is designed to plant the right seeds of belief within its readers.

Faith enables an individual to get in harmony with God. It is through trusting Him that the supernatural is manifested. He emphasizes this point by encouraging us to continually fill our minds with possibility thoughts. Replace doubt with expectancy.

A familiar theme that he drives home in this book and other works is that what you visualize in your mind is produced in the physical dimension. Consider the statement he makes on faith and results when he says, "Think big, and powerful forces are released." Planning for inspiration is essential to the achiever's lifestyle. "Travel, music, art, stimulating friends, and good books contribute to inspirational living," he reminds us.

Some profound thoughts on God's perfect timing are also included. We're reminded of the need to synchronize our timing with His, and that as Christians He lives in us.

Dr. Peale is a master at communicating truth from the Bible. His teachings on how to apply eternal principles is as effective now as ever. Read this book and apply it and you will attain the satisfaction of a life well lived.

If you want to make your life happier and a better place to live in you are on the search of a right book that'll make you relax and teach you to be confident of yourself on every turn of life. A soothing book that suggests you remedies to relieve tension and stress. Life brings along with it all types of ups and downs which make you happy as well as sad so to overcome your sadness this book will be the greatest guide with the best examples from your day to day life. DO TRY IT.

Stay Alive All Of Your Life is absolutely a must have book. It gives guidelines on how to enjoy each moment of every day . It is written in simple english so that it is easy to understand. It lets us know that life can be fun and exciting, no matter what the world problems are. A wonderful book!!

American foreign policy, especially during the Bush Administration, has been characterized as "incompetent" or "misguided," along with other such words. On the contrary, American foreign policy is actually very competent and works quite well, when its real purpose is to make the world safe for wealthy Western investors. Any country, no matter its size, that refuses to go along with America's demands is to be strangled into submission, by any means available.

Americans remember the Korean War as a limited "police action." North Koreans remember it as a time of total annihilation, when everything and anything was bombed. The seemingly irrational North Korean fear of an American invasion becomes much more rational considering that, in 1994, the Clinton Administration was very close to declaring war on North Korea, because of its nuclear program. The use of nuclear weapons to destroy North Korea's nuclear facilities would have spread radioactivity over most of the Korean peninsula, and killed hundreds of thousands of people, a fact which really didn't bother the Clinton Administration.

North Korea, in the midst of a huge energy crisis, has been willing to scrap its uranium reprocessing capabilities, in exchange for a couple of light water reactors (which are not good for reprocessing), and shipments of heavy oil until the reactors are finished. America and North Korea signed an agreement in 1994, which America promptly ignored. The American bargaining postition, from then until now, is full of bullying, and threats, and demanding that North Korea totally scrap its nuclear program, before America will agree to any kind of talks (with no guarantee that America will agree to do anything for North Korea).

The justification for the bombing and invasion of Yugoslavia was that hundreds of thousands of Albanians were being thrown out of Yugoslavia. The problem is that there was no evidence of thousands of people in mass graves, and the exodus of refugees started after the bombing. The 77 days of NATO bombing was supposed to target military facilities; nearly anything was considered a military target. Industrial plants were targeted, to cause maximum economic hardship, and all sorts of toxic materials were released into the atmosphere. In Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe's "crime" was to put the interests of his people ahead of those of Western investors.

I thought that I knew my way around present-day international relations, but this book was a huge eye-opener. Using local media sources (Korean, Yugoslav and Zimbabwean), Elich has written an amazing book. See for yourself what "democracy" from America means to the rest of the world.

Good source book for finding out what our corporate media doesn't tell us. The focus is on three pariah states-- North Korea, Yugoslavia and Zimbabwe. If you take usual reportage at face value, you probably think these countries amount to charnel houses run by madmen and populated by fanatics. I may exaggerate, but not much.

What the book tells is the other side of the story, the one we never get to hear. Thus, Elich presents an in-depth profile of North Korea's stance on nuclear power,. Corporate media usually portrays their negotiations as irrational, at best, or bomb-happy, at worst. Actually, once the picture is filled in, Pyongyang's contributions to the seemingly endless rounds of multilateral talks become quite reasonable and rational. That alone is worth the purchase price, exposing, as it does, Washington's duplicitous game that none in our media dares report.

Similarly, we get a fuller picture of the events leading up to NATO's criminal invasion of Yugoslavia. The air bombardment proceeded, of course, under the guise of protecting Albanians from Serbian genocide. The KLA's provocative role is either ignored or minimized. Frankly, this story has been told better in other sources-- Parenti, for one. However, we do get considerable anecdotal accounts of Serbian suffering at the hands of the KLA, a key aspect minimized in Western reporting. Nonetheless, this section is the book's weakest.

Zimbabwe's inclusion is timely. Britain and the US are again turning up the heat in an effort to topple the stubbornly independent Mugabe regime. The book details the brutal economic warfare that has been waged against this former British colony over the last several decades. It also debunks and/or explains the many myths surrounding the controversial project of land reform, the cornerstone of Zimbabwe's economic democratization. It's important that the country's story gets out since southeastern Africa is a neglected region, particularly vulnerable to Western subversion.

Of course, what these countries all have in common is a state-run economy resistant to unchecked foreign investment. That alone is enough to get them on Washington's hit list as corporate America reaches for unchallenged global supremacy. The objective is clear-- all holdouts, big or little, must be stamped out in the name of "democracy" and "free markets". What's more, It's not difficult to invent cosmetic reasons when you've got a compliant communications industry to back you up (think Iraq). That's why a work like this is so important. Sure, it's got flaws-- a sometimes repetitive text, for one. But it does detail an important and largely untold story. The overriding point here and elsewhere is that Americans can still approximate the truth as long as the margins continue to be tolerated.

I have never read a book that educated me in such a plain and detailed way about the means and methods of Western imperialism. Mr. Elich, the author cuts right through all the theoretical discourse one could have on such subjects and gets straight to the concrete information a person needs in order to know how hegemonic power works in the current world order. Also, the fact that this book touches on a diverse array of examples/places within major areas of the world is also fantastic. Elich does so with meticulous research and intriguing literary style. This book is a demonstration of major insight by Mr. Elich to focus on some of the most misunderstood places in the world, on exactly those things that are most misunderstood about them, and how the powers that be systematically generate these misunderstandings. The title is completely fitting. Now Iam always recommending it anytime and anywthere i get the chance, Strange Liberators; Militarism, Mayhem and the Pursuit of Profit!

I was particularly impressed by Mr. Elich's exploration of Western perfidy in the dismantlement of Yugoslavia and its campaign to bring non-aligned Zimbabwe to its knees. His defense of the struggle to preserve socialist Yugoslavia and of Zimbabwe's program of equitable land distribution are powerfully documented and keenly argued. Mr. Elich is clearly a man of the left, and his book challenges misperceptions of important issues where the fate of entire peoples are in the balance.

Martin Luther King noted in 1967 that the Vietnamese people `must see Americans as strange liberators'. In this brilliant and deeply-researched book, investigative journalist Gregory Elich shows how the US state has not changed its spots. He proves this by analysing its actions against Iraq, North Korea, Yugoslavia and Zimbabwe.

The US state promotes the `free market' across the world. Elich shows how Honduras, Bangladesh and China, among all too many others, compete in a race to the bottom, each forcing workers to work 14-hour days, 7 days a week.

The US state has committed many war crimes in Iraq, including the organised looting of Iraq's cultural heritage, sponsored by the `American Council for Cultural Policy', a group of dealers and collectors which opposes `retentionist' laws on the export of antiquities.

In 1993 the US state declared that it was retargeting many of its nuclear missiles from the Soviet Union to the DPRK. William Perry, Clinton's Defense Secretary, admitted that he "spent much of the first half of 1994 preparing for war on the Korean peninsula."

After the 1994 Agreement between the USA and the DPRK, the US state broke every single one of its pledges - to provide a light water reactor by 2003, to abandon its aggressive nuclear posture, to recognise the DPRK, to end its embargo of the DPRK's trade, investment and credit, and to provide substitute energy. The European Parliament as usual backed the US state by voting to cancel its contribution to the energy project.

NATO forcibly devolved the multi-ethnic state of Yugoslavia, carving it up into small, easily-controlled mono-ethnic puppet states, while claiming to defend multi-ethnicity against the Serbs! The US state backed the secessionists. It supported the KLA terrorists. In the first eight months of the NATO occupation, the KLA expelled 350,000 people from Kosovo. NATO created a Kosovo Police Force, composed almost entirely of ex-KLA soldiers, and a Kosovo Protection Corps, which, the UN pointed out, pursued "criminal activities - killings, ill-treatment/torture, illegal policing, abuse of authority, intimidation, breaches of political neutrality and hate-speech."

The US state also supported Croatia's 1991 secessionist war, when its forces expelled Serb civilians and, unreported in the West's media, tortured and killed their prisoners, for example at Camp Lora in Split.

In Zimbabwe in 2002, just 4,500 white farmers still owned 70% of the land. So the government stepped up land reform and ended the IMF's Structural Adjustment Program. In response, Bush, Blair, the IMF, NATO, the EU, and `Non-Governmental Organisations' funded by NATO and EU governments, organised a campaign of sanctions, covert operations, political interference and propaganda lies against Zimbabwe's government.

Yet this government proved popular with the people of Zimbabwe: in 2002 Robert Mugabe won the Presidential elections yet again, by 400,000 votes, in an election the South African Observer Team called legitimate. Then his party ZANU-PF won 2005's parliamentary and Senate elections, elections also deemed fair by independent observers. Mugabe drily noted, "There was no democracy here, no human rights at all until the people of Zimbabwe decided to fight."

I'm a basketball fanatic, I love every aspect of the game. I watch it as a spectator, I coach, I ref, I organize, I do whatever to help the game advance. I also read a lot. I bought this book few years back and read it, I loved every minute of it. Every page had something interesting, some piece of advice. I knew most of it, I got a different perspective on a lot of things and a lot of ideas. Unfortunately, I forgot about this book in my bookshelf. I came across last week and started reading it again, it's still as good as it was the first, second and third time I read it. It's something I will likely come back to every now and then, just like some other excellent basketball books. Highly recommended for everyone who loves basketball.

This new version of the late Dick DeVenzio's classic book of basketball 'tips' has been re-typeset and is much easier to read thanks to his Point Guard College protege Dena Evans. Every player and coach should have a copy of this book. Amazon's price is great on this hardcover edition. I bought the original in 1995 when I broke my foot and was unable to play ball for two years. Now I have bought copies for my son and his high school coaches along with DeVenzio's Runnin' the Show.

The things covered in Stuff are not found in any other basketball book I have read-- things many coaches surely know, but don't remember to teach and reinforce- or things they have forgotten and never really put into words. If you are a player or coach or know one, buy this book.

Coaches: You may try, but you can't teach every principle and golden rule in this book. So give it to them on their birthday's and they might surprise you by making the play you wanted them to make, without teaching it to them. Coach Dick "stuff" Devenzio did.
Players: surprise your coach by knowing and performing what he wants, before he even tells you.
As a player I would have liked to keep this book in my sportsbag, as a coach I would have liked to have written this book myself.

Although this book is in alphabetical order it doesn't jump all over the place. They try to keep a continuous flow to make it interesting and informative. The best point of this book is to give you a different approach to almost anything you'd encounter in a game.

It is exactly what I was looking for. The price was right and the book could only be found on Amazon. Thanks

Oooh, the illustrations in this book. They are just delicious.

The story is great -- terrific characters, and very easy to relate to.

And in the end, the bear has a full tummy and goes to bed, but not before he writes a thank-you note!

Find a copy of this one and devour it with your children. It is a keeper.

I should mention that my husband does not like the gulping sounds the animals make (such as "hom hom" and "hop la")-- he doesn't like to read them aloud. But they are Hungarian, I suppose, so on with the show!

We love it.

Tale of Tails is a clever play on words. It is a fun story about a fox who uses his tail to catch much desired fish. His friend, Bear wants some, but fox is too greedy to share and told Bear about his fishing method--to use his tale. Well, the fun of the story is what happens next. It is well written, and cleverly illustrated.

Judit Bodnar's rollicking tale of tables turned & turned again, in a funny & Aesopian tall tale, is wonderfully endowed by John Sandford's awesome artistry of life in an amazingly enchanted forest!

Fox is a quick witted creature & soon catches himself a basketful of trout. Just as he's about to dig in to his huge supper, he hears a knocking at his door. It's Bear, drawn to his friend's home by the lovely fishy smell.

Fox is not a polite neighbor & tells Bear to take a hike & when Bear persists, Fox thinks to give him a hard time by telling him how to fish for his own supper.

Bear, being a bit of a bumbler, takes Fox's lesson to heart & sits for one miserably cold winter night with his tale stuck in a lake.

In the morning, without catching one fish, Bear decides to go home. When he stands up he finds his tale frozen to the lake. With a mighty heave Bear pulls the whole lake out & staggers away, muttering at his Foxy friend.

Naturally, the lake melts & Bear gets his own feast, beyond Fox's imaginings!

A wonderful book to be read & re-read for the story & for the pictures!

My son was read this book in school and absolutely loved it! He's 7 years old and begged me for a copy of his own. He can't wait to receive it.

I was delighted to discover this book while volunteering at my son's school library. After renewing Tale of a Tail from the library twice, I decided we needed to own it for our own home collection.

This story is new to those of us in the West, but it has all the elements of a classic (and is, in fact, an old Hungarian fable.) The story of Tale of a Tail has a wonderful and surprising twist that makes it an enjoyable read for parents as well as children. The artwork in the illustrations is gorgeous; I am surprised this book did not win a Caldecott award.

This book earns the highest recommendation of our family!!!