Dubrovnik, Croatia . . and others
Open this beautiful book and find the travel destination that suits your schedule, your mood, your stage in life, and your dreams. Includes a directory of tourist information services with phone numbers and web sites, an extensive index, and more than 200 color photos and maps.
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Credible or not?.......2007-08-31
The image of one of the grandest views in Yosemite, a double page (pp.12&13) spread of Tenaya Canyon seen from Olmstead Point, is printed BACKWARDS!!
Where were the editors and proofreaders when this travesty rolled off the press?? Why did the author not recognize this??
(I'm closing the cover now, and looking no further .....)
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Two companion pieces released in one volume, containing selected writing and
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my new love..........2006-08-29
i have never read anything by henry rollins before i purchased this book. and i fell in love w/ his writing. i have now bought almost every book by him and in the process of reading them. his books touch me in a way, and help too. its hard for me to find a book, let alone an author that i like as much as henry rollins and his books
Very few touched me as this..........2005-11-06
this is the most honest, heartbreaking work I've read. It puts your personal misery into perspective, reminding you what it means to live life. Even after you lose those that make you whole.
Honest Writing.......2003-09-18
There is so much farcity in the world today that it's so good to come across a writer like Henry who's willing to show everyone what he thinks, how he feels, what his life is like and how he perceives the world around him.
This book is very brutal and honest, which I think always makes for good writing. He has a very clear perception of the people around him and how they think, which lets him view the world from all sides including his own. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to open their eyes to someone else's reality.
The world's most powerful book.......2002-03-03
7 years ago, a friend of mine read me a poem from "Now Watch Him Die" (They were seperate books back then). It's the one on page 164 of this volume, the one that starts with "I love you and you'll never know." Since then, I have not gone anywhere without a copy of these books close at hand. They are an all-encompassing chronicle of one man's solipsism, isolation, desperation and depression. This may not sound fascinating, but that man happens to be Henry Rollins, who has a talent for intensity and a command of words rivaled by no one of this era. Not since Bukowski has someone used so little to say so much. If you are ready for a descent into a maelstrom of anger, violence and pure, blinding pain, then this is the book for you. If you're looking for something sappy, sweet and redemptive, then try Oprah's Book Club instead.
An excellent albeit depressing work.......2001-08-18
I bought this book on a whim one day from a local bookstore and wasn't able to put it down. It's a brutally honest rendition of a life filled with tragedy, depression, doubt and one unsuccesful relationship after another. It's one of the more depressing books I've read, but I pick it up even when I'm feeling down. The intense emotion is almost palpable, you'll feel every bit of rage, heart-ache and frustration, loneliness and confusion. See a Grown Man Cry is worth every penny you pay, every minute you read and every pang of grief you feel for the suffering Mr. Rollins. If you ever by a book by Henry Rollins it should be this one.
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How to See was originally published in 1977. This reedition is updated and in color.
More than a guide to visual appreciation, this is a book about how to recognize, evaluate, and understand the objects and landscape of the man-made world. The pursuit of design is not about the way things appear, but rather about the way things give meaning and relevance to the human experience.
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The founding father of American Modern Design.......2006-01-15
George Nelson was not only a creative artistic talent, he was also a commercial genius (just like Picasso was). These two talents provided his secret for success that would reward him throughout his life. This book is an actual reprint from the original edition. It documents in detail how George Nelson thought and designed. The attention is clearly on his biography, this is not a coffee table book filled with an overdose of pictures. A wonderful biography about a designer that was the founding father of American Modern Design. I also suggest to visit the wonderful online archive about George Nelson at WWW.GEORGENELSON.ORG.
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It was Henry James who first claimed the imagination of disaster, but in Amy Bloom's stunning second collection, she appears to have inherited the mantle. Most of the characters in A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You are pursued by at least one of the biological furies: cancer, miscarriage, Parkinson's disease. And even those with their health intact tend to be sick at heart, having run the gantlet of family life and suffered what the military men like to call friendly fire. Yet the effect of these brilliant stories is anything but dreary. Instead they produce an odd sense of elation--Bloom somehow persuades us that her characters will continue under their own steam long after we've closed the book, and she alternates hope and hopelessness in exactly the right, recognizable proportions.
Take the title story, in which a middle-aged mother is determined to see her daughter through the rigors of a sex-change operation. Jane puts up a good front, almost but not quite earning the title of Transsexual Mom of the Year, and supports her "handsome boy-girl" every step of the way. Yet the strain shows. And when she meets a supernaturally nice man, she can't quite credit her good fortune--even his appearance at her door with an armload of flowers touches off a fresh round of ambivalence:
And standing on the little porch of the condo, barely enough room for two medium-size people and forty-eight roses, Jane sees that she has taken her place in the long and honorable line of fools for love: Don Quixote and Hermia and Oscar Wilde and Joe E. Brown, crowing with delight, clutching his straw boater and Jack Lemmon as the speedboat carries them off into a cockeyed and irresistible future.
The inclusion of Some Like It Hot's Joe E. Brown, who's gotten both more and less than he bargained for in his cross-dressing sweetheart, is a typically marvelous touch. And lest we think that Bloom has weighted the scales too heavily in favor of disillusion, Jane's new lover gets in the last word, citing the South Carolina state motto: "Dum spiro, spero.... While I breathe, I hope." Just keep breathing, the reader wants to say.
"Stars at Elbow and Foot" and "Rowing to Eden" are no less effective in their mingling of tragedy and sublime trivia. In two other stories, Bloom revives the Sampson clan, which she first introduced in Come to Me, and beautifully extends her mini-epic of mixed-race life without a grain of namby-pamby PC hesitation. And last but not least, there's "The Story," a tricky number in which Bloom seems to shoot to hell her own reputation for Chekhovian decency. Here we have a narrator who lies and dissembles, destroys her rival, and lives to tell the (metafictional) tale: "Even now I regard her destruction as a very good thing, and that undermines the necessary fictive texture of deep ambiguity, the roiling ambivalence that might give tension to the narrator's affection." In the end, though, Bloom is simply too gifted a writer to banish all seven types of ambiguity from her work. She understands that we are hopelessly divided creatures and cuts us the necessary, unsentimental slack. Or to put it another way, she forgives all--but forgets nothing. --James Marcus
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"Amy Bloom gets more meaning into individual sentences than most authors manage in whole books."
--The New Yorker
A great short story has the emotional depth and intensity of a poem and the wholeness and breadth of a novel. Amy Bloom writes great short stories. Her first collection, Come to Me, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and here she deepens and extends her mastery of the form.
Real people inhabit these pages, the people we know and are, the people we long to be and are afraid to be: a mother and her brave, smart little girl, each coming to terms with the looming knowledge that the little girl will become a man; a wildly unreliable narrator bent on convincing us that her stories are not harmless; a woman with breast cancer, a frightened husband, and a best friend, all discovering that their lifelong triangle is not what they imagined; a man and his stepmother engaged in a complicated dance of memory, anger, and forgiveness. Amy Bloom takes us straight to the center of these lives with rare generosity and sublime wit, in flawless prose that is by turns sensuous, spare, heartbreaking, and laugh-out-loud funny.
These are transcendent stories: about the uncertain gestures of love, about the betrayals and gifts of the body, about the surprises and bounties of the heart, and about what comes to us unbidden and what we choose.
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Perfect stories........2007-09-21
This is a beautiful collection of emotionally resonant stories, written with an eye for detail and an ear for dialog. Bloom has such gift for teasing apart the threads of complicated relationships. Most of the stories are concerned with medical events--the fight, the surrender to disease, what it's like to be alive when those around you are succumbing. The story about the Darling Mistress is one of the fiercest in the collection, and my favorite. This book is outstanding.
a handful of gems.......2005-05-24
Being a psychotherapist, Ms. Bloom focuses on stories of people with...certain ailments. But not to worry, these are not 'disease of the week' soap operas--her stories are witty, sometimes outrageously so, often told by characters with their own reasons for bitterness about the world. But the truly inspiring thing about Ms. Bloom is how, one way or another, she allows her characters to struggle on with some hope, some humor, and some love.
The title story is first; it's the longest and the funniest. But for me the story immediately following is the most touching, and the most uplifting.
Great author checking boundaries of love and relations.......2004-11-30
I remain somewhat ambivalent towards this book, an ambivalence that is reflected in the points I gave this collection. Truly this beautiful collection of stories should have received 5 points based on the writer's talent and her writing that is so earthy and real on the one hand and so high level on the other, but if I judge the book according to my personal pleasure then I am not sure...
There is no doubt that this book is very well written, beautiful and candid and touches many modern, relevant subjects leading to the resolution (this is what I felt the writer was telling me) that all can be bore if only you have someone to share it with. Be it a mother, a lesbian girlfriend, a lover helping you suffer your Parkinson. I like this resolution and I think there is something very comforting about it.
My ambivalence stems from the fact that Amy Bloom seems to be constantly checking our boundaries. Many reviewers have already noted that all the characters in this collection suffer from a certain misfortune, be it a sickness of the self or a loved one. I do not think that this exactly is what bothered me but rather with Amy Bloom's going over the edge and maybe crossing a few red lines - such as a sexual encounter between stepmother and son, Julia and Lionel. This one encounter which never repeated itself, has left its marks on both the characters lives and is sufficient to unsettle the reader. Julia, the stepmother was my most beloved character in the book and yet the story is quite disturbing.
I found myself very uncomfortable with the first story bearing the collection name. Not because I am opposed to change of sex but because the story was painful for me to read both from the mother's side of having to see your daughter being so unhappy until the point of maiming herself and both from the physical aspect when I imagined the details of the operation. This story has also led me to ask myself several uneasy questions such as why am I more comfortable reading about cancer pain then about the pain of a sex-change operation? I guess the answer lies in the fact that the deformation of the self was hard for me to take. Amy Bloom has the reader sympathy for all her characters no matter what is their illness or misfortune, but I am not sure that this is a book I would want to read again in the near future. Maybe it is that stories of loss are always hard to take no matter how well they are written.
The ins and outs of relationships.......2004-07-30
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories by Amy Bloom covers how typical love can be in atypical situations (for some, of course). Ms. Bloom touches on transexualism and a mother's love for her daughter soon-to-be son, death and recovery, breast cancer and the family, death of a newborn -- all situations that do affect people on a daily basis, but aren't the "norm" for the majority.
I think Ms. Bloom is essentially stating that no matter the situation, people are really the same and have the same feelings. If you've ever had any of the above situations touch your life, then I think you can appreciate not only the story that most affects you, but also the other stories to realize that you're not alone -- that other people do love and grieve just as much as you.
I also think it's very timely that love is most realized when someone or something is lost. Makes you think about your life and how you're living it at that exact moment.
I would recommend this book of short stories to anyone-- there's a bit of humor in most stories too, most of it bittersweet, but isn't that how life is?
Stories to Define Our Age.......2004-06-19
In Amy Bloom's second collection of short stories, some of her characters include the mother of a transsexual, a teenaged girl with a dying mother, and a man who is tormented by the night he had sex with his stepmother after his father's funeral. En masse, these characters and their circumstances may seem outrageous, but Bloom's honest portrayal of their inner-lives provides us instead with a window into the universal experience of love and pain. Though the suffering of these characters is palpable, Bloom's writing remains witty, lyrical, and always sharp-never allowing a single moment of these unlikely stories to seem exaggerated or out of place.
In "Rowing to Eden," for example, we are presented with a No Exit kind of situation. A woman in her final stage of Chemo Therapy is living in the same house with her lesbian best friend and her doting but dopey husband. As it is with all the other stories in this collection, the defining moments of characterization come with little action. Instead, we understand the story in terms of the delicate relationships and interactions between the three people involved-their slight dialogues, embarrassingly awkward at times, but always poignant and telling. As it is in Sartre's play, Bloom's characters seem trapped, bound together in a sad and fruitless triangle. Bloom boldly takes her readers on a tour of this triangle, allowing us to look in on it through descriptions of dinners and sunsets until suddenly we find ourselves inside the head of the guilt-ridden patient who finds her husband pathetic despite his efforts to help her beat cancer. We also manage to see the situation through the eyes of the husband, a man who just wants his beautiful healthy wife back, and from the perspective of the wife's best friend, a lesbian whose devotion to her friend is steadfast if not obsessive.
The beginning of "The Gates Are Closing," examines the experience of a woman helping her lover who has Parkinson's Disease paint the synagogue that his wife presides over. Initially, this may seem absurd, but once Bloom has painted her picture in full, we are forced to notice all the subtle shades of pain and longing that exist behind this scene, as Bloom deftly fills in the spaces between what her characters think and what they do.
Ultimately, although Bloom's characters seem capable of anything, including surprising themselves with their own ability to overcome unusual hardships, neatly packaged endings where vexed people find solace and conflicts are smoothed out into oblivion don't show up in this collection-and thankfully so. Instead, as disturbing as the circumstances that dictate each story may be, Bloom makes it all believable-even somewhat hopeful-reminding us that as humans it is the details of our tumultuous relationships that bring our love for one another to life.
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Understanding DB2 9 Security is the only comprehensive guide to securing DB2 and leveraging the powerful new security features of DB2 9. Direct from a DB2 Security deployment expert and the IBM® DB2 development team, this book gives DBAs and their managers a wealth of security information that is available nowhere else. It presents real-world implementation scenarios, step-by-step examples, and expert guidance on both the technical and human sides of DB2 security.
This book’s material is organized to support you through every step of securing DB2 in Windows®, Linux®, or UNIX® environments. You’ll start by exploring the regulatory and business issues driving your security efforts, and then master the technological and managerial knowledge crucial to effective implementation. Next, the authors offer practical guidance on post-implementation auditing, and show how to systematically maintain security on an ongoing basis.
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- Establishing effective security processes, teams, plans, and policies
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- Encrypting DB2 connections, data âin flight,â and data on disk: step-by-step guidance
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- Using SSH to secure machine-to-machine communication in DB2 9 multi-partitioned environments
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Unexceptional.......2007-03-08
I thought from the qualifications of the writers that this would be an excellent book. Instead it falls into the mediocre category, rehashing in poorly editted language information that is presented better elsewhere. The clarity of the "explanations" of core concepts leaves much to be desired (e.g., Kerberos) and is dreadfully short on usefulness (Okay, how do you get an AIX version of DB2 to authenticate using Active Directory?). Maybe I just wanted too much: I mean, it's an okay book, just not great.
Covering everything from security processes and plans to implementing design in the DB2 environment........2007-03-05
Understanding DB2 9 Security isn't for the light programmer's library: it's an in-depth, comprehensive guide - the only one - to securing DB2 and harnessing the new features of 9, and comes from a security deployment expert and the IBM DB2 development team itself. As such, college-level holdings strong in advanced computer database and security holdings will find it a top pick, covering everything from security processes and plans to implementing design in the DB2 environment.
great book.......2007-01-17
This is a must read book for DB professionals implementing DB2 9, now or in the future. The book is written in a simple stratight forward and logical manner that makes for very easy reading, yet it provides complete coverage of the topic. The book provides comprehensive technical and managerial information regarding the security of DB2 systems.
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The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, The Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Feats of Genius
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Physics textbooks identify Thomas Young (1773-1829) as the experimenter who first proved that light is a wave--not a stream of corpuscles as Newton proclaimed. In any book on the eye and vision, Young is the London physician who showed how the eye focuses and proposed the three-color theory of vision confirmed only in 1959. In any book on ancient Egypt, Young is credited for his crucial detective work in deciphering the Rosetta Stone. It is hard to grasp how much he knew.
Invited to contribute to a new edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Young offered the following subjects: Alphabet, Annuities, Attraction, Capillary Action, Cohesion, Colour, Dew, Egypt, Eye, Focus, Friction, Halo, Hieroglyphic, Hydraulics, Motion, Resistance, Ship, Sound, Strength, Tides, Waves, and anything of a medical nature. He asked that all his contributions be kept anonymous.
While not yet thirty he gave a course of lectures at the Royal Institution covering virtually all of known science. But polymathy made him unpopular in the academy. An early attack on his wave theory of light was so scathing that English physicists buried it for nearly two decades until it was rediscovered in France. But slowly, after his death, great scientists recognized his genius.
Today, in an age of professional specialization unimaginable in 1800, polymathy still disturbs us. Is this kind of curiosity selfish, even irresponsible? Here is the story of a driven yet modest hero, the last man who knew everything.
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Only read if..........2007-05-18
Only read this book if you are secure with your own IQ. If you are not, you will leave feeling terribly inadequate as Thomas Young was amazingly portrayed in this book!!!
Inspiring........2006-12-06
Chapters include:
Preface
Introduction
Child Prodigy
Fellow of the Royal Society
Itinerant Medical Student
'Phenomenon' Young
Physician of Vision
Royal Institution Lecturer
Let There Be Light Waves
'Natural Philosophy & the Mechanical Arts'
Dr Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.C.P.
Reading the Rosetta Stone
Waves of Enlightenment
Walking Encyclopedia
In the Public Interest
Grand Tour
Dueling with Champollion
A Universal Man
Notes & References
Bibliography
Index
***** A fantastic biography of Thomas Young that is not only great for fans of history, but also for students to use in subject reports! *****
Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.
A Little Dry, But Worth the Science.......2006-10-20
There isn't a great deal of personal, emotional information about Thomas Young, the title polymath here. But then his life was mostly in his work. And there is a lot to be learned following Thomas' investigations of a variety of scientific and scholarly subjects.
His range truly was amazing. How did people accomplish so much in previous centuries? Well, I suppose without TV to suck away time... But Thomas was exceptional even for his overachieving, turn-of-the-18th-century age. And this biography allows a reader to follow in the path of his curiosity - about how the eye works, about the nature of light, about Egyptian writing.
The biographer's descriptions of Thomas' researches into the physiology of the human eye can get pretty gruesome. These pages are not for the squeamish. Thomas often used himself as subject, probing his own eye socket to get to the bottom of things.
The section on his investigations into light is really enlightening and presents some of the clearest descriptions I've read of the split-screen diffraction experiment. This experiment was key in leading Thomas to his pioneering proposition that light is wave-like in nature.
And then the section on his work translating the Rosetta Stone was news to me! I had always assumed that ancient Egyptian hieroglyph writing was a form of picture writing like Chinese, with each symbol representing a whole word. But Thomas' break-through lay in the realization that the Egyptian symbols were actually largely like our modern English alphabet - that each symbol represented a sound, a phoneme. And so he gave us the key to reading the inscriptions on the ancient Egyptian tombs and obelisks.
The writing here is generally clear and will keep you turning page by page, tracking Thomas' investigations as he unlocks one mystery after another.
you might not like this book.......2006-06-09
If you're already intrigued by the concept of polymathy (a man who studies and works in many different subjects), were a triple major with two minors in college, or have a general interest in Thomas Young, you'll come away from this satisfied. Young's a fascinating guy, and given the task of understanding a man who worked in such varied areas, Robinson does a decent job writing his biography, or perhaps more properly, measuring and framing Young's contributions in the various subjects listed on the cover. The problem is that I don't think this book would cross over to a general audience that doesn't fit one of the above criteria. But then again, I could be wrong.
Excellent Snapshot of Thomas Young's Life and Work.......2006-04-26
Although, as specified by the author, this is not meant to be a full biography of Thomas Young, this book certainly does give the reader an excellent perspective of the man, his many activities and his times. Any meaningful sketch of Thomas Young would need to include, amongst many other topics, some discourse on his work in physics, particularly the wave properties of light. This book certainly includes such discussions. The author has the ability to present physical principles with the utmost clarity - something that is, most unfortunately, lacking in many a scientific paper. I was not aware that Thomas Young was involved in so many fields, including Egyptology. In particular, I have always been under the erroneous impression that the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone was solely the work of Champollion; this book sets the record straight on that matter. The book is well-written and should be accessible to everyone. It would make a valuable addition to any library, particularly one leaning towards topics pertaining to the history of science.
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A blueprint for men who want to instill their love for God in the hearts of their children.
Who is that guy in the mirror? To your son or daughter, he’s “Dadâ€â€”the most important man in the world. Men’s leaders, speakers, and authors Patrick Morley and David Delk share with you the secrets of grace-filled dads who understand that their most important work is to help shape the attitudes and beliefs of the next generation.
This book shows you how to father from your heart to your child’s heart. Rather than only seeking the right performance from them, you can move into a dynamic relationship with your children that models what it means to love God and others truly and passionately. Start by asking the right question—not “What is my child doing?†but “Why is my child doing this?†Practical guidelines show you simple ways to help your children thrive, to build a firm foundation of faith for your family, and to empower your children by giving them both roots and wings.
Currently, only sixty percent of children raised in church follow Jesus as adults. Will your son or daughter be one of them? We believe God will use this book to help you disciple your children to love God for a lifetime.
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Finally, a book for Dads that doesn't insult the masculine!.......2004-10-22
On Father's Day, I received the Dad in the Mirror and quickly decided it would be the basis for my men's study at my church throughout the summer.
About a dozen of us went through each chapter each week and it was truly amazing. Here's a book that doesn't reinforce the hollywood stereo-type of "dad." That is, the "stupid guy" with the amazingly beautiful and smart wife (you know the shows I mean).
As a father, we have a tremendous responsibility with our children. Like it or not, believe it or not, our kids are watching and learning from us.
What can we do to make sure our kids don't grow up to be the guy in the clock-tower with a high-powered rifle? Listen to the ultimate dad - God.
The Dad in the Mirror takes us back to God and His Word. But it isn't a Sunday morning sermon. This is a book for dads by dads. 30 years from now your kids will thank you for the kind of dad you were as you follow the guide put forth in this book.
Finally! A book on fathering that I get!.......2004-03-16
Since my wife and I first learned that we were expecting over 3 years ago, I've gone through several different books on how to be a great dad.
Unfortunately, most of the books just freaked me out and got me all panicked that my kid would end up the school bully or worse!
The Dad in the Mirror is the book that I was looking for all these years! Finally! This is a book written for the dad who's looking at the heart of his kids... not just the A's on the report card. It actually felt while reading it that this book was specifically written for me!
I found this book to be a great read and lots of the topics covered can easily be incorporate into my fathering skills.
I would strongly recommend this book to any dad, grand-dad, or soon-to-be-dad!
Great book for all dads!.......2004-01-05
This book has had a tremendous impact on me as a dad! Patrick and David have done a superb job in describing the difference between 'fathering for performance' and 'fathering the heart'. I especially like the "Straight to the Heart" section at the end of each chapter. I highly recommend this book for all dads, soon-to-be-dads, and grand-dads.
Not Just Another look in the mirror.......2003-12-12
If you have read "The Man in the Mirror", dont' be mistaken in assuming this book is just a different wrapper on the same material. Morley and Delk use a familiar metaphor but lead men to a deeper, Biblically clear understanding of how to be the dad who will see Proverbs 20:7 fulfilled. How to be the father our heavenly Father desires we be. Short, powerful, true to the Word of our Creator - "The Dad in the Mirror" is a terrific book for any man with kids - or grandkids. Don't let this book pass you by.
Fathering the heart!.......2003-11-24
This book moves from superficial "how tos" to that which will have eternal impact - fathering the heart of the child, as opposed to behavior modification. This book is a must for fathers and grandfathers who are interested in helping shape the true character of their children and grandchildren.
Book Description
Legendary attorney Edward Bennet Williams was arguably the best trial lawyer ever to practice. Now, for the first time, best-selling author Evan Thomas takes us into the courtrooms of William's greatest performances as he defends "Godfather" Frank Costello, Jimmy Hoffa, Frank Sinatra, The Washington Post, and others, as well as behind the scenes where the witnesses are coached, the traps set, and the deals cut.
In addition to being a lawyer of unprecedented influence, Williams was also an important Washington insider, privy to the secrets of America's most powerful men. Thomas tells the truth behind the stories that made Williams one of the most talked about public figures of his time, including Williams' role in the publication of the Pentagon Papers and the possibility that Williams may have been Watergate's Deep Throat. Based on Thomas's exclusive access to Williams's papers, "The Man to See" is an unprecedented look at the strategies and influence of this exceptional man.
Customer Reviews:
Book Changed My Life: You'll Love This Book!.......2007-01-16
"THE MAN TO SEE" was a great book. Since I'm going to be attending law school this fall (of 2007), I thought it wouldn't hurt to read books by and about lawyers; man, am I glad I included Evan Thomas's "THE MAN TO SEE" because this is without a doubt one of the best biographies I have read in ages. Page by page, you feel caught up in a drama without end. The characters, adventures, and funny stories add so much luster to a larger-than-life figure. By the end of the book, I was sorry to see it all end; I felt like I actually new Mr. Williams! If you're interested in a good biography check out "THE MAN TO SEE." You won't be disappointed.
A great Book.......2002-01-08
This is one of the best biographies ever written. A wonderful piece about an interesting man.
A Magnificent Biography of a Fascinating Man.......2001-12-14
Take a fascinating subject-- Edward Bennett Williams. Add a highly-skilled author with remarkably deep interviewing and archival research skills-- Evan Thomas. Put in a lot of hard work. And presto-- you have Thomas' "The Man To See," one of the most thorough biographies ever written (I have read many hundreds).
Edward Bennett Williams was one of the most dynamic men of the 20th Century-- a great figure of destiny whose life would have seemed emptier had not Evan Thomas been his biographer. EBW was a self-made man in the days where one could still achieve that accolade. He was no spoiled yuppie of family money. Bright, hard-working, forward-thinking, compassionate and disciplined-- and a wonderful rogue!-- this was Edward Bennett Williams. Warts and all, Evan Thomas presents the larger-than-life lawyer who pioneered criminal law practice in postwar America, bringing the constitution into the 20th Century. He sought power for the purpose of doing good, after doing well. Thomas interviewed practically every living person with whom EBW had a conversation or situation.
I am re-reading "The Man to See" for the fourth time in ten years. It remains fresh and fun. What a brilliant book!
Excellent, Excellent book.......2001-09-05
This is one of the best biographies I have ever read. It is a great story about a great man. I read a lot of biographies and I can tell when the author is fauning over his subject - just read some of Robert Slater's books on Jack Welch. Thomas book did none of that. Thomas made you feel that he was giving an accurate and true account of Williams life. Of couse Thomas was helped by selecting a subject that was larger than life, a one of a kind person both in legal talent and raw personality. This book is right up there with "Vince", Michael O'Brien's biography of Vince Lombardi. Interestingly, Lomardi and Williams were very much alike - both very religious yet profane, and above the rest of their competitors in their chosen fields. They were also both like to drink, were emotional and quick to say exactly what they thought or felt about something. I recommend this book to anyone who likes to read biographies about great men.
A tremendous book.......2000-11-26
I have never been more absorbed by a book than by this one. Admittedly my interest was heightened by the fact that Williams was my criminal law teacher at law school, but I found this a fantastic book. Evan Thomas (did you know he is Norman Thomas' grandson?) paints Williams warts and all, and I found it a searing read. The account of Williams' deathly fight with cancer is most poignant. Anyone at all interested in law should read this book, and anyone interested in an amazing life will be enthralled by this account.
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