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Resume Pro: The Professionals Guide
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The joy of giving enriches the giver. Here are steps anyone can take to help themselves and the world. Great tool for fundraisers and nonprofit organizations.

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We can all learn a lot from Yogi Berra

Straight talk from Yogi

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When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It! Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
Yogi Berra
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Hall of Fame philosopher Yogi Berra's When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It! is another volume of musings and malaprops, and the advice implicit in the title is sound indeed. Just listen: "Throughout life you come to serious forks in the road--decisions," Yogi tells us. "Which path do you choose? Sometimes it's tough. People are always afraid of making the wrong choice." Not Yogi, who explains that tragedy lies in paralysis, not bad choices or regrets, and offers personal examples from on and off the field to prop up his profundity.

Like its predecessor, The Yogi Book, Fork is essentially a collection of Yogi's well-traveled observations from out of left field, but it's much more than just déjà vu all over again. Instead of explaining, as he has before, what prompted a particular Yogi-ism or what he was really trying to say, Yogi does his best to go deep. The charm is that Yogi's so guileless, he makes it work--there's sagacity in his simplicity. Each Yogi-ism gets its own short chapter in which Yogi riffs off the phrase to dispense a bit of homespun wisdom and inspiration. "It gets late early out there"--we get old before we're ready, but here's how to cope with it. "If you can't imitate him, don't copy him"--we all need to be true to ourselves. With Yogi's latest career as a successful author, not only ain't it over for him, there's happily no end in sight. --Jeff Silverman

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Three-time MVP and Hall of Famer Yogi Berra hit home runs twice in a row with his two previous books, The Yogi Book and It Aint Over. Now, his winning streak will continue with this latest worka collection of appealing, funny, and surprisingly moving essays on life, happiness, and getting through the slumps. Filled with another delightful helping of Yogis inimitable and unwittingly wise aphorisms, these reflections focus on the valuable lessons hes learned on and off the field. From his early years as an immigrants son who dropped out of the eighth grade through his triumphant career as a player and manager who played in a record seventy five World Series games, Yogi illustrates his homespun philosophies with apt analogies to his trove of baseball stories. He expounds on such topics as Patience (Waiting for your pitch); Sacrifice (Laying down a bunt); Trusting Others (Taking direction); and Staying Focused (Keeping your eye on the ball), to show how the rules of life and baseball are uncannily similar. And, in the tradition of Dont Sweat the Small Stuff and All I Really Need to I Know I Learned in Kindergarten, he explains his recipe for fulfillment and happiness with life lessons that are profoundly simple, simply profoundand classic Yogi to the core. Following on the heels of two New York Times bestselling books and filled with memorable photos, this new collection of Yogi wisdom will undoubtedly expand his growing legion of fans. When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It! is a wise, humble, touching book thats a guaranteed winner. In short, its dj vu all over again.

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A collection of appealing, funny, and surprisingly moving essays on life, happiness, and getting through the slumps from the bestselling author and celebrated athlete. Filled with more of Yogi's inimitable and unwittingly wise aphorisms, these reflections focus on the valuable lessons Berra has learned on and off the field. From his early years as an immigrant's son through his triumphant career as a player and manager who played in a record seventy-five World Series games, Yogi illustrates his homespun philosophies with apt analogies to his baseball stories. This wise, humble, touching book is vintage Yogi Berra--in short, deja vu all over again.

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Come for the Wisdom, Stay for the Photos.......2005-02-02

Yogi Berra has learned that when someone offers to publish your book, take it. Make the most of living, it can get late early out there. Better make your book forty chapters, the public may not be hungry for fifty.

More of a look into the thoughts, values and beliefs of the baseball legend than a biography, Yogi keeps things pretty straight. Unapologetic and proud of his life, Yogi is not above owning up to a character flaw or two. If he seems to occasionally contradict himself, he comes across as all the more human. This is certainly preferable to the self-service approach others have taken in this type of book, making it a cut above the "self-help from athletes" genre. Every chapter is titled with a piece of philosophical advice, virtually all from Yogisms or in one case a Dimaggioism. Sometimes the content of a chapter is shoehorned to fit the title, but most of the time they mesh.

The best part of the book are the photos that appear at the beginning of each chapter. Rarely seen family and career photos are incorporated with such gems as Yogi and Phil Rizzuto working during the off season at a men's clothing store. These photos tell more about the Yogi that you didn't know than the text does.

If this review doesn't make you want to read this book, I'm not going to try and stop you. Then again, if these type of books get too popular, no one's going to want to read them anymore.

A Fast Fun Read.......2005-01-02

Yogi surprisingly give some good words of wisdom and convinces us that there is more to the mental make-up of one of the greatest ballplayers ever than the quotes that he is known for.

Yogi provides a lot of insights to life in general and provides a lot of good advice in a book that I read in less than 2 hours. Based on the price it is probably better to take it from the library, than to buy it.

We can all learn a lot from Yogi Berra.......2004-04-25

Yogi Berra is an American treasure, epitomizing many of the things that make America great. As a legend in life as well as a legend in baseball, the common-sense pearls of wisdom that drop from his lips are as instructive as they are humorous. I consider Yogi the common man's philosopher. This book offers forty chapters, each containing helpful advice, based upon a famous Yogi-ism, as well as inspiration to the reader. Most of us already know most of these lessons, but we need to be reminded of them periodically. Yogi is the perfect teacher. He is humble and honest, perfectly willing to use his own failures as well as his successes as object lessons for the rest of us; he also speaks from the heart in plain language. I love the unpretentious nature of this book; maybe it breaks a few rules of proper grammar, but it comes across in such a way that you half believe Yogi is sitting in the room with you and just talking. Yogi does offer up a number of parallels between baseball and business, stressing the importance of true teamwork, loyalty, and the personal involvement and commitment of all involved, but most of the lessons he imparts here are lessons about life and the proper way to live it. All the inspiration and wisdom aside, though, I have to admit that what I enjoy the most is Yogi's baseball stories. Baseball was a different game back when Yogi was playing, and I'm sure I'm not the only fan whose love of the game has faded as the game has turned into an impersonal industry. Yogi represents baseball at its best.

I also enjoyed learning a little more about Yogi's personal life - heck, I didn't even know how he got the name Yogi before I read this book. Here's a kid born in St. Louis to first-generation immigrants who quit school after eighth grade and pursued a dream that many people said he would never attain. All he did was play on ten World Series championship teams, earn three MVP awards, and become one of the most-loved baseball heroes of all time - heck, I bet there are even some Red Sox fans who love Yogi. He is also a war hero, having fought in the D-Day landing at Normandy. (He also played a brain surgeon on an episode of General Hospital back in the early 1960s, as I was quite shocked to learn.) With all of his success, though, he has always been remarkably humble and quick to thank those who made his good fortune possible. He is a great role model for kids as well as adults, and we all can learn a great deal about life by heeding his practical advice.

Straight talk from Yogi.......2004-04-18

This collection of short snippets of wisdom from Yogi Berra is an enjoyable and ,yes, profitable read. Yogi is a man of great integrity and dignity and those qualities shine through on every page of this simple and relatively quick read. Pick it up and read it on your next long flight.

Wit and Wisdom abounds from this unlikely philospher!.......2002-07-04

You don't need to be a baseball fan to enjoy (and benefit from) the words of wisdom in Yogi Berra's book, "When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!". Yogi explains and refines the numurous malapropisms that he noted for is this short and quick read.

Without going into the many "Yogi-isms" found in this book, let me suffice to say that you'll get a better perspective on life after reading it. Yogi does a great job giving advice and sharing his worldly experiences with the reader in his own inimitable way. This would be an outstanding graduation gift to share with young people ready to embark on their own life journey. I think it would especially appeal to young athletes who may already be somewhat familar with the Berra legacy.

Older readers will certainly enjoy the "Yogi-isms" that are used as the chapter titles and the numerous pictures from Yogi's photo archive. Yogi is a lovable baseball figure who has furthered his appeal factor by putting his thoughts down in words. Here's hoping that each reader will take something a little different from the experience!

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When you come to a fork in the road ... take it! Being prepared to handle the unexpected, whether positive or negative, will help to determine the right ... An article from: Wood & Wood Products
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When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!

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When you come to a fork in the road, take it?: abortion, personhood, and the jurisprudence of neutrality.(response to Stuart Rosenbaum, Journal of Church ... An article from: Journal of Church and State

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When you come to a fork in the road, take it?: abortion, personhood, and the jurisprudence of neutrality.(response to Stuart Rosenbaum, Journal of Church ... An article from: Journal of Church and State
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Yogi Berra
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"Not just a deeply thoughtful and richly populated survey of modern experimental music, it's a meditation on hearing itself."- Guardian

Digital technology has changed the ways in which music is perceived, stored, distributed, mediated, and created. In the eye of the storm stands David Toop, shedding light on the most interesting music now being made, wherever he finds it. Haunted Weather is an intensive survey of recent developments in digital technology, sonic theory, and musical practice.

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Fresh, thoughtful and stimulating.......2005-04-01

Rather than argue a thesis, Toop's style is the chase down a thread of meaning via the points at which various thoughts and anecdotes cross over. This perfectly suits the nature of his subject matter- the vast, largely uncharted terrain of non-genre-based music, for which a dominant narrative and vocabulary do not yet exist as with, say, rock 'n roll or classical.

The book meditates on, among other things, the boundary between performer and audience, environmental sound and music, improviser and composer, and the role of digital technology in mediating or enhancing these distinctions.

As a journeyman music writer, critic and musician, Toop has spent a lot of his time travelling. This seems to inform his writing style as he is constantly in motion, moving quickly between personal recollections, excerpts from correspondence with diverse musicians, and lengthy quotes from various topically obscure yet philosophically related texts.

These (non-)random stop-overs make the book a slow read, as the reader is left to do a lot of the piecing together. Yet this is part of the pleasure to be found in Toop's writing- like a brilliant but challenging piece of music, the book offers an experience in which the mind of the reader is engaged as more than just a passive receptor of received ideas and emotion.

big ideas spoken in a quiet voice.......2004-09-30

Beautiful, challenging and nourishing.

I read this upon its UK release in July and still find myself dwelling upon some of the ideas raised. Reading it challenged me to use my ears afresh, and to think about what music can be.

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HAUNTED WEATHER: MUSIC, SILENCE, AND MEMORY
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Very Good Attacking Book For Many Skill Levels

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Attack and sacrifice to win

Rocking the Ramparts: A Guide to Attacking Chess
Larry Christiansen
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U.S. chess champion Larry Christiansen provides the principles of middlegame understanding, tactical alertness and counterattacking skills, enabling club players to get more out of their chess by adopting the sharp, aggressive play of present-day grandmasters. Chess enthusiasts will find incisive methods of play that illustrate attacking motives inherent in the structures of different opening systems and their variations. The Sicilian Defense, the Najdorf, Dragon, Taimanov-Paulsen, Sveshnikov, Rauser, Rossolimo, Closed, and Grand Prix are all handled individually, showing the reader how to recognize and exploit typical tactical opportunities. Even the art of swindling is not neglected, and it's all richly illustrated with examples from practical play, including the games of amateurs. Players of all levels enjoy and benefit from Christiansen's instructive writing and insider information.

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Very Good Attacking Book For Many Skill Levels.......2005-12-26

This is a high quality book, in which the author uses very accessible language to help you understand the concepts. He does a very nice intro to each chapter and tells you what you will be learning by running through the games. Where Art of the Attack by Vladimir Vukovic fails, Larry Christiansen pulls up very nicely. This is because Art of Attack sometimes becomes a bit to deep and hard to understand, while Rocking the Ramparts is full of a bit lighter, but still fully instructive. The only problem I have with it is that sometimes it is a little sparsely annotated, but that may just be me expecting every book to be annotated like Robert Snyder's Unbeatable Chess Lessons For Juniors (another highly recommended book), which has an annotation on every move.

A Good Introduction to Combative Chess.......2005-12-01

Grandmaster Larry Christiansen is famous for his aggressive and creative chess. In this very instructive book he teaches amateurs and average club players how they could improve their attacking skills. Christiansen's book is well-written and it includes a lot of examples, games between famous players from different decades. Christiansen analyses each game profoundly and gives principles of attacking chess. This is definitely an important book on an important topic. I have personally been frustrated because of my sometimes too passive and defensive style. Especially in rapid games I have endeavored to find more attacking chances. Christiansen's book guides me on this path and I hope I will score more points with fine combinations in the future. An index of players and openings at the end of the book would be useful (perhaps in the next edition?).

Sacrifice to win.......2005-05-13

I like this book a lot. It shows the preconditions for sacrificing material. E.g King in the center, lead in development, retaining the initative etc. It shows the various sacrifices, like the bh7+ sacrifice, the nxf7 sacrifice and bishop and knight sacrifices on e6. It covers the Velimirovic Attack in the Sicilian and the double edged variations in it which have a lot of nice sacrifices. Finally he sums up the book with examples of sacrifices from his own games. Also he has tactical positions at the end of the book from various players where you have to guess what the winning moves are, he then explains the winning variations and analyzes side variations.
If you like this book you might also want to get Essential Chess Sacrifices and Attacking with Mikhail Tal.

A Great Classic On Attack and Defense.......2004-10-12

I am a USCF chess expert who loves good chess books. This giant book is a true classic. Although I have profited from fine middlegame books by Silman, Bronstein, Pachman, Euwe and others, Christiansen's book clearly surpasses them all. After I spent several weeks studying this book, my tournament results took a great leap forward.

Christiansen explains and illustrates an enormous number of attacking and defending principles: how to keep your own king safe when you are attacking; how centralizing your pieces changes everything; how a knight defends the king marvelously even against an enemy Queen; how active defense should culminate in a powerful counterattack; how often a rook lift wins the game instantly. I especially enjoyed the final chapter of inspirational combinational themes with many diagrams.

Like a chess Socrates, Christiansen subtly points you in healthy directions where you may reach out and grasp nuggets of chess wisdom. This subtlety and Socratic quality is extraordinarily refreshing. It compares favorably to, say, Jeremy Silman, whose tirades remind one of a browbeating from a lunatic grandparent.

Many instructional books pretend that a well-played chess game is like an Algebra proof where the victorious side smoothly demonstrates the winning technique while the losing player watches and applauds. Christiansen corrects that misconception and teaches you, as Bronstein does, that games between good players are rarely seamless. Christiansen serves up reality: ups and downs, advantages lost and advantages gained, trade-offs and balances, epic battles, terrific struggles between great fighters. He peppers you with a million examples of grandmasters winning brilliantly after falling behind in the opening. With this large dose of reality Christiansen subtly frees you from lingering worries about the encyclopedic opening knowledge that you do not possess. Gradually it dawns upon you that the opening is merely preparation for the real battle. Beautiful teaching technique! You may have resisted such an idea had he stated it directly, so he simply gives you the proof and waits for you to arrive at the healthy conclusions: A good player should never worry just because he stands somewhat worse in the opening. A grandmaster takes it in stride and starts maneuvering his pieces skillfully, fighting hard to take over the game. You can do the same. What a healthy attitude!

That healthy attitude has improved my results immensely and, better still, it has made chess more enjoyable. Thanks to Christiansen I now approach my tournament games with a sensation of high freedom. It is sad to see players sitting down to their tournament games as grimly as if they were taking the SAT. I am grateful to Christiansen for giving me the perspective to see the chessboard as a supremely enjoyable playground.

It is a pity that opening books sell more than middlegame books simply because most chessplayers cannot tell what will help them most. Christiansen's Rocking the Ramparts has helped me infinitely more than a million opening books ever could. It is a great classic on attack and defense. It is the best chess book I have ever seen.

Postscript: If you are an Internet Chess Club (ICC) member, then you can play chess against Christiansen twice a week. Every week he gives a simultaneous exhibition against 40 opponents with a 45-minute time control. Also every week he gives an exhibition where he gives his opponents odds, or, if you prefer, a normal game, 3-minute Blitz. If you log on reasonably early and put your name on the list, then you, too, can do battle with the distinguished author of this book.

Attack and sacrifice to win.......2004-02-19

Hi,

"Rocking the Ramparts" by GM Larry Christiansen.

256 pages
8 chapters
83 complete games with heavy annotation.
289 diagrams
Numerous partial games
Each chapter is approximately 30-32 pages in length.
Paperback with glossy cover design.
Published by Batsford in the UK and Sterling in the US.

chapter 1 "The Art of Attack"
chapter 2 "Attack on the castled King - Drawing the King from it's Lair"
chapter 3 "Kings Castled on Opposites Sides"
chapter 4 "Sicilian - Opposite Sides Castling"
chapter 5 "Important Motifs for the Attacking Player"
chapter 6 "Romantic Opening Thrill Rides"
chapter 7 "Some LarryC Games"
chapter 8 "Instructive Combinations and Inspirational Attacks"

All major openings are covered. It is important to recall this book demonstrates how to attack not how to play your favorite opening. The information provided by GM Christiansen is superb. The sacrificial guidelines in chapter 1 is an eye opener.
Chapter 6 asks you to play some opening lines where you are forced to attack, these lines were chosen specifically for increasing your attacking knowledge and sacrificial eye.
How to they do it? Sacrifice piece's to a good end? The nuts and bolts of what to look for, how to set it up, why it will work, why it wont work are all here spread throughout the various chapters.
If you are wanting to improve your attacking play this book will insure you know what to look for and how to pull it off. In particular chapter #5 "Important Motifs for the Attacking player" A series of observations and techniques are given with examples to illustrate the fact.
Chapter 8 is a series of 30 partial games with back rank themes and smothered mates. The chapter concludes with some of the finest attacking chess played during this century.
The games depicted herein are beautiful in their style and grace making chess look easy. I am pleased with it. Already the ideas are showing up in my play.

Who is this book for? Everyone except the beginner.

Algebraic notation is not used in the diagrams.
No index of games.
No index of players.

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This offbeat, non-technical book looks at what hackers do, how they do it, and how you can protect yourself. The third edition of this bestseller (over 150,000 copies sold) adopts the same informative, irreverent, and entertaining style that made the first two editions a huge success. Thoroughly updated, this edition also covers rootkits, spyware, web bugs, identity theft, hacktivism, wireless hacking (wardriving), biometrics, and firewalls.

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Couldn't get past one sentance..........2006-08-15

"Hackers are generally lazy but intelligent, which means they don't like doing something boring that they can program the computer to do for them instead." and thats as far as I got. It irritates me how someone thinks they have enough knowledge on a subject to write a book, yet blatantly has no understanding of the subculture they pretend to have an expertise in. You can get away with this trashy writing in The Daily Mail, but if you're trying to educate people then you're just going to get seen thru straight away.

A book for those who want to know the Internet.......2005-06-07

This is a very interesting book, full of web links, tips and Internet resources. This reminds me of another earlier book on Internet web resources but on different topics. Sharing files seems so harmless, and yet it touches on many aspects of our lives. From downloading the innocent MP3 music, to sharing the pirated software (i.e., warez), to browsing pornographic images, this shows how easy one can cross the line. This is certainly a book for the security professionals who would like to have a better understanding of how the hacking underground works, how the secret trading is done from using newsgroups, IRC chats to how hackers use peer-to-peer file sharing technologies such as eDonkey, Kazza, bit Torrent, to distribute their files/secrets. It is also a book for anyone who simply wants to have an awareness of what is out there.

The book also explains how hacker hides his identity in this digital world. In addition to explaining how these technologies can be used, the author also provides suggestions for readers how to protect their systems from having worm, and/or virus attacks. The author also provides a list of freeware for anti-virus protection for those who cannot afford to buy, as well as providing alterative open software for office and photoshops utilities. Lastly, the author talks about copyright laws and what the future holds, giving his opinion on whether how we could adapt to the file sharing technologies. All in all, this is a very informative book. It certainly is an eye-opener.

An entertaining read but not much on information. .......2005-05-06

Definitely a book for beginners, this book is not much more then an introduction to the "dark underside". It should effectively scare any parents or newbes, but bore anyone who's been on the net for any amount of time. I'm not very experienced on the subject of security but still this book didn't have much to offer me. There are a lot of other books out there that provide this information and take it a step or two farther.

The book does present a nice history lesson about hacking and tells about many hacking programs, but most of them are nothing but history themselves. Probably the most informative thing about this book is the web sites it references. It does give you starting blocks to find information you're interested in but doesn't do much for providing that information itself.

If your looking for the possible bad things you could encounter on the net this book provides an introduction to them. It's a good read for someone who only wants the basics. But if you want some more in-depth information don't waste your time and money.

Mildly entertaining and moderately informative........2004-12-22

Upon finishing a book, I always take a moment to reflect on what I've learned from the reading of it. Experts/hackers, don't waste your money. This book is a good primer for the computer-illiterate parent who wants to protect their children, or the new computer owner who wants to keep their machine relatively "safe" from viruses and script kiddies. Professionals will learn nothing new, nor will veteran hackers or even long time computer users. Also, I don't recommend this book to anyone living in a dictatorship or third world country (for reasons of personal safety).

Wallace Wang's sense of humor and amusing paranoia kept me from falling asleep on the pages. After all, if the FBI, CIA or NSA is -seriously- after you, I think you have bigger problems than securing your email.

The darker side of the net..........2004-11-09

If you're looking for something that covers the murky underbelly of the internet, you might want to check out Steal This Computer Book 3 by Wallace Wang.

Chapter List: Finding What You Need: The Magic Of Search Engines; Alternative Sources Of News And Information; Censoring Information (We Know What's Best For You); Hacktivism: Online Activism; Pledging Allegiance: Hatred As Patriotism; Where The Hackers Are; Viruses And Worms; Trojan Horses: Beware Of Geeks Bearing Gifts; Con Games On The Internet; Online Stalkers; Probing A Target; Sneaking Into A Computer; Digging In; Computing On A Shoestring; Protecting Your Data And Your Privacy; Waging War On Spam; Web Bugs, Adware, Pop-ups, and Spyware; Firewalls, Intrusion-Dectection Systems, and Honeypots; Computer Forensics: Recovering And Deleting Data; Protecting Your Computer; Software; A Hacker's Gallery Of Rogue Tools; A Bit Of History: Phone Phreaking And Other Phun; Glossary; Index

On the back cover, you have this warning: "This book is not to be used for hacking into government computers, shutting down AOL, cracking software, phone phreaking, spreading viruses, or any other illegal activity." That's enough to get your attention. Depending on your background, I think you'll have varying reactions to the book. People who haven't been exposed to information like this will quickly learn that all is not safe when you're online. If you've surfed the web for any length of time as an IT professional, you'll read a lot of the information and say "I already know that". But even then, you'll pick up some ideas and concepts that you may not have been aware of. For instance, I didn't know there were servers that would send you requested web pages via email in order to bypass filtering or banned sites. And the chapter on alternative sources of news will cause you to think about expanding your media view of the world.

The packaging of the book is rather unique. The cover and pages have a dirty, "photocopied" look to make it appear more illicit than it actually is. It becomes one of those books that will catch someone's eyes on a book shelf, and may need to be explained. :-)

An interesting read, and you will learn a few things along the way....

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