Teaching Leadership: Innovative Approaches for the 21st Century (PB) (Leadership Horizons Series)

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Multifunction devices combine the essentials of a fax machine, printer, scanner, and copier into one peripheral for small and home offices. As the market for this equipment grows, the need for skilled repair and maintenance increases. Unfortunately the service documentation supplied by the manufacturers is completely inadequate making the repair jobs even harder and more expensive. Marvin Hobbs teaches you how multifunction peripherals work in theory and in practice with lots of hands-on examples and important troubleshooting and repair tips you don't want to miss.

This book fills a gap in the literature, and will be a welcome addition to the library of any technician or do-it-yourselfer.

Written by a knowledgeable practitioner with inside industry information
Fully covers the troubleshooting and repair of multifunction peripherals
A must-have instructional and reference title for anyone who works with computer peripherals!

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b /b b i Privatization and After /i /b focuses on the need for monitoring privatization as it proceeds, in order to ensure that it agrees with the objectives announced and is capable of improving the overall performance of the economy. The contributors, policy makers, professionals and academics from both the developed and developing world, examine the rationale of monitoring, what to monitor and how. Illustrative material is drawn from a wide range of locales including Argentina, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Hungary and Pakistan. Anyone involved or interested in the topical subject of privatization will benefit from a close study of the many examples contained in this volume.

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o "We're going to reach the point where stocks are correctly priced, and we think that's 36,000." -James Glassman, best-selling authoro "Not even Greenspan can stop the Internet economy." -Larry Kudlow, economisto "Our techs are all overvalued but that's not a factor right now." -Jim Cramer, CNBCThrough the 1990s, stocks went up for so long that millions started to believe the pundits who predicted they would climb forever. The market was heralded as a magic get-rich-quick scheme-and its stars were the breathless financial reporters, analysts, politicians, and CEOs who urged Americans to buy, buy, buy and hold, hold, hold. But trees don't grow to the sky and as the market plummets by frequent and lasting double-digit drops, these stars no longer seem as bright. In retrospect, some seem downright stupid. Authors Greg Eckler and L. M. Mac Donald use their wry perspective to profile them all, reminding us that there was a whole team of "experts" encouraging us to rip up our savings while the rich got "super rich." With quotes from Alan Greenspan, Al Gore, Bernie Ebbers, Larry King, and more, Bull! provides a humorously outrageous look at the bubble that many swore could never burst. "The stock market, as best as I can judge, is high. It's not that there is a bubble in there." -Alan GreenspanWe rate this book a Strong Buy.

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Hilarious! A good but painful lesson/reminder for many .......2006-01-03

Certainly it is easy to tell things from hindsight but I must praise the authors for their very clever picks, exhaustive info collection and great presentation, that each "statement" is accompanied by the aftermath specific to that statement, a critical analysis, an update about the "fallen prophet" who made the statement and that cursed company, and a sacrastic bottomeline echoing that statement. It's definitely a page turner. Though it will be a long time before we will go into another maniac of the scale of the Y2K Internet Bubble, at least not before people completely forgot the lesson and shouted "this time is different", it's good to place this book in an eye catching place inside your investment/trading book collection coz creepy analysts, anchors, CEOs, Chairmans etc are still after us on media everyday. In short, beware! Take no tips! Just do it! (your own homework).

p.s. It's not a shame to make wrong recommendations. However, It's shameful to deny without a blush one had been wrong at all.

Below please find some copy and paste for your "easy" reference:-

Asked in Feb 2000 for five stocks to hold for next five years, James Cramer serves up this dog's breakfast: "Yahoo!, AOL, SUNW, NOK, CSCO." pg 8
"What is dangerous is for Americans not to be in the stock market. We're going to reach the point where the stocks are correctly priced, and we think that's 36,000." James Glassman, CNN, Dec 1999. pg 38
"I really dont think valuation is all that relevant here. So I would stick with the market leaders." Gregg Hymowitz, Prinicpal, Enthrust Capital, CNN, March 2000. pg 52
"We have a better business model. It's a fundamentally better business model." Jeffrey Skilling, CEO, Enron, Information Week, Nov 2000 pg 90
"There are absolutely no problems that had anything to do with Jeff's departure. There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues. The company is probably in the strongest and best shape that it has ever been in." Kenneth Lay, Chairman, Enron, Businessweek Online Aug 2001 pg 91
"The firm that figures out how to bring out the knowledge and insights of two disciplines together to get the power of three, will be the real leader in this model. And we intend to be that leader." Joseph Bernardino, CEO, Arthur Andersen, Business Times, Singapore, Feb 2001 pg 92

Author's Opinion to be Listed in the Next Addition of Bull!!.......2003-12-31

In a book about poor recommendations, I find it hilarious that the authors give their own market opinion, which has proven to be incorrect.

Page 119, in reference to Abby Joseph Cohen's S&P 500 forecasts:

"Last we heard she was still calling for a twelve-month of 1,150. From 835, that's a pretty heady reacceleration."

Last I heard, the S&P was at 1.110. That's up 36% in 9 months, 3 months left in the twelve-month forecast. Hopefully, no one was listening to the author's opinion in early 2003.

Hilarious and important.......2003-11-13

This book chronicles the hype, promotion, conflicts of interest and outright lying by the financial media, pundits and corporate leaders. It also shows the serious recriminations for the few analysts and brokers who went against the market madness of the late '90s. On any financial bulletin board today, "strong buys" issued by the large brokerages are normally perceived as a sure sign that they want to dump stock on the naive small investor. I trade the stock market almost daily, and eshew all the major media new sources - the hype, no matter how absurd, never ends. This small book confirms my worst, cynical beliefs. Read it and laugh, read it and weep.

A VALUABLE RECORD OF THE MANIA.......2003-08-13

The authors have performed a valuable service in providing this record of the mania.

I predict it will occupy the same position in future study of stock market history of this period as has a similar account of the 1920s experience.

(Surprisingly there's already enough new material associated with the 2003 stock market rally for a sequel)

From Bill Fleckenstein's July 30th column.......2003-08-06

To end on a lighter note, folks should sprint and do whatever it takes to get their hands on a new book titled Bull! 144 Stupid Statements From the Market's Fallen Prophets , written by Greg Eckler and L. M. Mac Donald. Greg is a longtime reader of the Rap, but that's not the basis for my enthusiasm. Rather, this is one of those rare finds that's not too long, right on point, hilarious and well-written. It's an easy-to-read history of quotes from many of the mania's pundits, complete with follow-up comments by Eckler and Mac Donald that at times had me laughing so hard I literally cried. I promise you, whatever the effort to obtain this book will be well worth it.

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Brash, iconoclastic, controversial, intelligent and "the best actor of his generation," all have been used to describe Sean Penn. Throughout his remarkable career in the dramatic arts, as well as his occasionally explosive personal life, Sean Penn has proved he rarely plays by the rules. A tumultuous marriage to Madonna, stints in jail, and other forms of hell-raising marked Penn's younger years, along with some stunning performances on film. Later, Penn emerged as a brilliant director, devoted father, contentious political activist…and reluctant actor, capable nevertheless of breathtaking performances (Dead Man Walking, Sweet and Lowdown, Mystic River, and 21 Grams). Illustrated with over seventy-five black and white photographs and drawing on exclusive interviews with Penn and his family, friends and colleagues (Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Woody Allen, Susan Sarandon, Bono, Christopher Walken, Angelica Huston, and many more), Kelly creates an engaging, richly detailed and multi-faceted portrait of an uncompromising American artist in this exclusive and engrossing authorized biography.

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A fascinating biographical survey & "window" into the career and personal life of the accomplished actor & director Sean Penn.......2006-04-05

Sean Penn: His Life And Times - The Authorized Biography by journalist Richard T. Kelly is a fascinating biographical survey and "window" into the career and personal life of the accomplished actor and director Sean Penn. Exclusively documented and informatively written, Sean Penn: His Life And Times explores many interesting intricacies of the friendships, career moves, family and landmarks of Sean Penn's life, including interviews from his colleagues and friends Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Woody Allen, Susan Sarandon, Bono, Christopher Walken, Angelica Huston, and many more recognized and praised individuals. Very highly recommended reading for all Sean Penn fans, as well as Hollywood film buffs interested in behind-the-scenes realities of the Hollywood film industry. Sean Penn.

Readable, interesting and insightful.......2006-02-17

Reminiscent of the classic HEAR ME TALKIN' TO YOU by Nat Hentoff in which musicians themselves talk about their music, this is more about a single subject - SEAN PENN - and less about the craft of acting. To that extent it tends towards the hagiography but interspersed is much interesting insights into acting, the film making process, and 20th century history in the USA from the perspective of some very interesting characters not least of whom include the subject's father LEO PENN and mother EILEEN RYAN PENN both vital, fascinating, and vivid individuals. Quite a good read especially if you are a fan of PENN's films eg, THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN, MYSTIC RIVER and 21GRAMS

More than a character actor, but an actor with character!.......2006-01-26

Sean Penn seems frightfully young to have his biography in print, however, in terms of career, he is an old Hollywood hand, the proof -- is rather well documented by his contemporaries..Penn has been schlepping in showbiz for decades, with an eclectic/eccentric body of work, he started early and with certain purpose..And acting is overwhelmingly in his genes, his mother Eileen Ryan Penn was once a noteworthy stage queen, is in fact regarded in select theatrical circles as the quintessential Blanche Dubois, over and above even Vivien Leigh..Penn's father Leo was a tireless, trouble-shooting Hollywood television series director, known for the 60's hospital episodics like "Ben Casey," and "Doctor Kildare"..And Leo was the victim of an unfounded HUAC blacklist, that froze his career like a nuclear winter, having once been peripherally named as a Pinko sympathizer by a "friend"..In actuality, Leo was a decorated veteran, a tailgunner, having flown three dozen successful bomber missions during WWII..Ironic?..Most people don't know Eileen was both Irish, and Italian, and Leo was a non-practicing Russian Jew..You began to appreciate why Sean is naturally versatile..And Sean grew up in a Hollywood/Malibu household that supported the brothers in all their endeavors and passions, but don't wrongfully assume Sean was the benefactor of orchestrated nepotism, as Leo's kid..Sean studied his craft for years behind his parent's back, toiling in LA workshops, and relocated to a cockroach infested flat in New York to more seriously refine his skills..When strapped for cash, Penn camped out with other starving actors, slept on their couches for months on end, on both coasts, and in time made positive noise accepting showy parts in off-Broadway plays, relentlessly on the prowl for agency representation, that inched along like a North Sea iceberg..No joke, Sean was spurned by every major talent agency in the country at one juncture or another..In fact, when Penn's parents first saw him act, they asked themselves, does Sean realize he is so awful, yet, no doubt unafraid?..Obviously, Sean evolved into a dedicated method actor..And his coharts generously toss the words loyalty and integrity around to define his character..This biography is a series of interviews, an oral history by both Sean Penn and the many actors he's worked with over the years (ala Christopher Walken, Elizabeth McGovern)..You won't want to put this book down for an instant..It's a marvelous recap how Sean Penn made the grade from obscure "bad boy" actor to A-list bankable star, despite a disruptive detour with Madonna and Johnny Law..And a penetrating insight into how the "Hurly Burly" Hollywood system operates..Read it!

Great talks on a great actor.......2004-12-30

Having seen Sean Penn up close in Sam Shepard's The LATE HENRY MOSS, having flown up from San Diego, first-row, watching him and Nolte battle one another, was for me a once-in-a-lifetime experience that started, like the book, in the beginning: Taps, 'Fast Times,' 'Bad Boys'...this book is one long rambling conversation about the art of acting, the art of Penn, and all the details of his life. Integrity is a word that reappears and could be applied to choices this great actor has made, even by going to Iraq to see what was going on over there! We should all be curious enough to question. This is a book about stories, about what movies could have been made, should have been made, about paths crossing, told straight and sober. This is an actor who is getting better and better, more honest, organic, raw even. Just wait 'til 'Richard Nixon' comes your way, let alone the masterful last year's 'Mystic.' If you love this actor, love his performances (my brother's favorite is Kleinfeld in 'Carlito's,' mine: ALL, ok, I thought 'Hurlyburly' is as good as it gets to becoming scarily real). Get this book. If you love acting, and the stories of projects put together, riding on that integrity, staying close to what you believe in, this book on Penn is definitive, told by those real close, told by those who talk now by the great actor whose lineage is from the great ones (the great one who recently passed: Brando). I love this book.

SEAN PENN: HIS LIFE AND TIMES [Paperback] by RICHARD T. KELLY

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SEAN PENN: HIS LIFE AND TIMES [Paperback] by RICHARD T. KELLY
Enid Blyton
Manufacturer: Pan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WET9J2

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Uncivil War is a provocative study of the intellectuals who confronted the loss of France's most prized overseas possession: colonial Algeria. Tracing the intellectual history of one of the most violent and pivotal wars of European decolonization, James D. Le Sueur illustrates how key figures such as Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Germaine Tillion, Jacques Soustelle, Raymond Aron, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Albert Memmi, Frantz Fanon, Mouloud Feraoun, Jean Amrouche, and Pierre Bourdieu agonized over the "Algerian question." As Le Sueur argues, these individuals and others forged new notions of the nation and nationalism, giving rise to a politics of identity that continues to influence debate around the world. This edition features an important new chapter on the intellectual responses to the recent torture debates in France, the civil war in Algeria, and terrorism since September 11. James D. Le Sueur is an associate professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the editor of Mouloud Feraoun's Journal, 1955-1962: Reflections on the French-Algerian War (available in a Bison Books edition) and The Decolonization Reader and The Decolonization Sourcebook. He contributed new material to Ben Abro's Assassination! July 14 and Henri Alleg's The Question, both available in Bison Books editions.

Customer Reviews:

GREAT INTELLECTUAL READ!.......2001-05-30

This book is based, in large part, on private and never before seen archives of key public intellectuals during the decolonization of Algeria. Scholars who focus on decoloniztion and post-colonial studies will find this work provocative and enlightening, with far-reaching implications for today's world. Some notable characteristics of the book include the following: this is the first book to really look at conversations between French and Algerian intellectuals during decolonization; also, Pierre Bourdieu wrote a very moving forward about his relationship with Mouloud Feraoun before Feraoun was assassinated by the OAS; the chapter on Camus is fascinating and relies largely on his private papers; Le Sueur's critical analysis of the concept of the "Other" and its use by various intellectuals provides a refreshing and critical perspective. This book makes a unique contribution to fields of study such as history, anthropology, sociology, post-colonial studies, education, cultural studies, decolonization studies, and African studies. It's definitely a great read!

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Fun to read, but sloppy
Great book, but you'll need an French-English dictionary
A good read, a book that deserved better focus
The "City of Light" comes back to life
Almost as good as Stalingrad or Berlin

Paris After the Liberation
Antony Beevor
Manufacturer: Doubleday
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0385471955
Release Date: 1994-07-01

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In this brilliant synthesis of social, political, and cultural history, Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper present a vivid and compelling portrayal of the City of Lights after its liberation. Paris became the diplomatic battleground in the opening stages of the Cold War. Against this volatile political backdrop, every aspect of life is portrayed: scores were settled in a rough and uneven justice, black marketers grew rich on the misery of the population, and a growing number of intellectual luminaries and artists— including Hemingway, Beckett, Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Cocteau, and Picasso—contributed new ideas and a renewed vitality to this extraordinary moment in time.

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Fun to read, but sloppy.......2007-02-07

This is definitely worth reading, covering an ill-understood time in French history. I really enjoyed Beevor's the Fall of Berlin and Stalingrad, and was expecting much from this book. For the most part, it delivers. However, it could have used a more sharp-eyed editor. Some examples: Personages (like Juliette Greco) are introduced without any background, (the background appears later in the book), the index is flimsy, (many people referred to in the book are simply missing from the Index), and Simone de Beauvoir is intermittently (and for no evident reason) referred to as "Castor"(I understand it was her nickname). Ultimately, it is a good means of understanding France's difficulty in coming to terms with German occupation and the Vichy government.

Great book, but you'll need an French-English dictionary.......2006-04-07

I like all of Beevor's books I've read so far, and this one is no exception. My only real criticism is that he has a nasty habit of quoting people in their native tongue (French in this case) without translation, which I found very annoying. Besides that, I thought the subject was brilliant and presented well. What I took away from this book is that the French, perhaps more so that other European nations, were a series of paradoxes both during and after the German occupation; simultaneously collaborators and resistants, arch-conservatives and communists, openly hostile to and embracing the influx of American culture. No one term can be used to pigeonhole them.

A good read, a book that deserved better focus.......2005-09-04

I love Anthony Beevor's writing. I looked forward to this book and rushed through things to get to it. I then read it and read it, when I should have done other things. I finished it in a day where I did very little else. This testifies how Paris After the Liberation is a great and interesting read.

Yet, I think this book is unfocused. Beevor and Cooper really needed to decide whether they were writing a book about the City of Paris in the Liberation and life and events in it, or a history of France from 1944 until 1968. The focus shifts in too many places from goings on and life in the city to the national political alignment in France, international events affecting France, and relations between other countries dealing with France, political events in France outside the city, etc.

Likewise Beevor and Cooper's view of the city of Paris tends to be unbalanced. They focus on the city of tourism and myth rather than the city most Pariseans live in. They give us only a few pages of description of the misery, poverty, disease, starvation, and neglect in the outer working class suburbs. They provie a paragraph about the prison-like experience of workers at Billancourt where Renault is. They have not one word about the working class and poverty-stricken faubourgs inside the city. Instead, Beevor and Cooper concentrate on the life of major intellectuals, upper class socialities, and above all the English-speaking diplomatic circles and returning exiles

If you want to know the details of the life of British Ambassador Duff Cooper, his various extra-maritial affairs, taste in decoration, friendship, advice to French politicians, advice to the British government, this is the book for you. If you want to know what it was like to live in Paris from 1944 until 1952 as an average working class or lower middle class citizen who is not a writer or a painter and who does not socialize at embassies, world class restaurants, or hotels, you need another book. This is about the Paris of public myth,the Paris of politicans and millionares, and not about the Paris that the great bulk of its people lived in and continue to live in.

I think this book would be very hard to understand for someone who does not understand French, is not familiar with the city of Paris, and is not familiar with the array of political, cultural, socialite, and artistic figures that Beevor and Cooper present without explanation.

I speak French, have spent time in Paris not as tourist, and have studied and written about French History and politics for decades. Yet, I found this book both exhilarating and hard to keep up with as names and places whirled past me and had to stop and remember the city's geography. I don't know what someone who can't read French would make of the many statements in French produced with no translation?

One of the interesting aspects of this book is Beevor's use of documents unearthed since the fall of Soviet Union about the French Communist party. In doing so, he provides a good picture of the utter contempt Stalin and his bureacrats had for the working people of France and the world, and Stalin's continued determination to use the PCF not as a tool for social change in France, but as a puppet to secure diplomatic advantages with the imperialist leaders of Europe and the United States.

Beevor and Cooper explain that the PCF began to lose its support in 1944 when it became clear to French workers that the party was not going to lead French workers and farmers to power. Once connections with Moscow were restored and exiled leader Maurice Thorez returned, the PCF organized itself to increase production, "stop strikes," as Thorez was wont to stay, and allowed the peaceful return of French capitalism.

To be sure the PCF remained a major political party, but as Beevor indirectly explained, this was due to middle class intellectuals flocking to the party as workers left. Later in the late 1940s when the PCF aimed at spoiling actions whose purpose was to disrupt the Marshall plan and stiffen France's opposition to the West's plan to build a strong West Germany as a military bulwark against the USSR, the PCF brought about disaster.

What I found the most interesting was Beevor and Cooper's pictures of the lives and intellectual development of Jean Paul Sartre and Simon De Beauvoir, Camus and other Paris intellectuals during these years. Though I think Beevor and Cooper tend to have a bias against De Beauvoir, I would loved to hear more about them and less about the sexual affairs of various English socialities and diplomats.

The final chapters takes the reader through the 1950s and 1960s very quickly. The focus on the city of Paris is really lost, so we don't know anything about the big changes in life and lifestyle, the explosion of new art, film, literature, and politics that happened. As the book goes on and loses focus, inaccuracies unworthy of Beevor and Cooper start to appear. Rather than describing life in Paris, Beevor and Cooper seem to end this book by trying to settle political scores with a generation of the French who were barely born in 1944-1950.

I would have loved a book focused on real life in Paris during these years with the necessary background in French and global politics, a picture of the real city and not just the tourist city. On the other hand, a political history of France from 1944 to 1950 by Beevor and Cooper would have been a wonderful work. Perhaps, a book on the social world of the upper classes, the intellectual elite, and foreign dignataries and diplomats might also be interesting. However, this is the best we've got from Beevor and Cooper on this topic, and it can be enjoyed.

See Paris like a native, not a tourist!

The "City of Light" comes back to life.......2005-01-28

I have enjoyed many books by Mr. Beevor, and this one is as well-written and infornative as his others. Everyone knows, at least in some way, the story of WWII and the Occupation of Paris, but most of us do not know what happened in that city, and in France, after it was liberated. This book fills in our gap in that knowledge quite well, and it shows that France was really on the front lines of the Cold War during the latter part of the 1940's. We read of the humanitarian and generous contributions of the US to the initial recovery of France, and how its leadership strove mightly to regain a stable government while. at the same time, trying their best of overcome the stigma of Vichy. What amazes me is that there is such a lack of gratitude among the French to the US for all that we have done for them in the 20th century. This book shows that, once again, "No good deed goes unpunished".

Almost as good as Stalingrad or Berlin.......2004-04-24

Paris after the Liberation has captured the imagination like no other Nazi-liberated city (sure, there's "Roma, Citta Aperta", but can any non-Italian mention any intellectual or politician living in Rome in 1944?). Maybe it's because the French are better at self-promotion. Maybe it's because their history is more dramatic than others (4 major revolutions- 1789, 1830, 1848 and 1871-in less than a century), or because Paris is a better setting for a good story (remember Les Miserables, or a Tale of Two Cities), but the happenings in Paris in 1944-1949 are compulsively readable.

The scene is dramatic: it moves from avant-guard theatres to banquet halls, from smelly bistros to worker tenements, from Les Champs Elysees to Saint-Germain-Des-Pres. The cast is outstanding: doddering Petain, haughty De Gaulle, decent Mauriac, ambitious Malraux, brilliang Sartre, Camus, Hemingway, Picasso, Celine, Brassillach, Drieu, plus a large cast of fanatical communists and anti-semites, ignorant American senators, well-connected British spies and hairy proto-Kerouacs. Everything comes together: military and political matters, social and artistic trends, intellectual developments. Paris, in 1944-1949, was shabby and run-down, its people hungry and ill-scrubbed (although that's perhaps a recurring theme), but it was the mecca of the world. Anyone who was anyone was there.

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What did French intellectuals have to say about Gaullism, the Cold War, the women's movement, colonialism, and the events of May 1968? David Drake examines the political commitment of intellectuals in France from Sartre and Camus to Bernard-Henri Leacute;vy and Pierre Bourdieu. In this accessible study, he explores why there was a radical reassessment of the intellectual's role in the mid-1970s to the 1980s and how a new generation engaged with Islam, racism, the Balkans War, and the strikes of 1995.

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A Good Buy.......2000-06-21

I consider this screen to be the best White Wolf has made. It has the normal wraith/chains artwork, and spans an extra page from the other Stroyteller's Screens (4 pages total). Beyond that, it has similar information. I just feel it looks much better than the others, and I use it most of the time when I run my games. The book, Buried Secrets, has many little-known facts that are quite interesting. It has the most secrets about what's really going on in Wraith excluding, of course, Ends of Empire. While it is not incredibly useful from a gaming aspect, the book is a great tool to help design role-playing scenarios, as it gives enough information to better flesh out certain adventures that the main rulebook is vague on. I would recommend this book at least for storytellers, and for anyone who wishes to know more about the secrets of Wraith.

The Greatest WOD Table Top Book.......2000-06-06

Wraith - The Oblivion is a great book. I just read it and I couldn't stop reading it. It adds a whole new dimension to WOD. I use to love playing Vampire the Masquerade but now my frineds and I play wraith. Charon plays a role similar to Caine, but he has his own accomplishments. Try to figure out who is Able (he is not under that name in the book). The Hierarchy is what I believe the Camarilla should have been created like. There is the Rebels for the rebels out there and theres the Heritics for you True Faith Players. The Shadowlands is a whole new world to roleplay.

The Greatest WOD Table Top Book.......2000-06-06

Useful, but not essential.......2000-02-06

This storyteller's screen is suitably moody, and the "Buried Secrets" book is useful, but neither is 100% essential for a good game of Wraith: The Oblivion. If you have a few bucks to spare, the elegantly dark screen will definitely contribute to the mood of the atmosphere (it looks great by candlelight), the nicely organized reference tables will be a great convenience, and the "Buried Secrets" book will give you a few good ideas.

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This is the leading selling college-level book for Internet research courses. Examples have been chosen to appeal to a broad spectrum of students and researchers across academic disciplines. It is much more than a catalog of search engines and their features. Both the free and fee-based (hidden) Internet is explored. The focus is on formulating search strategies, understanding how to form search expressions, evaluating information, and citing resources. Librarians, prospective and in-service K-12 teachers, and majors in business, math, or the sciences will benefit from it.

Customer Reviews:

Alright.......2007-01-09

The book is ok... but the only reason I even had it was for a class.... It is not for people who are veterans of the internet

I wouldn't purchase for any other reason........2007-01-07

This book did not really explain the necessary info, but since I needed it for a course I bought it.

Excellent buying.......2006-03-19

the shipping was quick and the new book is too cheap compare to my school bookstore.

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