International Tourism: The Great Turning Point : Texts and Documents 2001-2003

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International Tourism: The Great Turning Point : Texts and Documents 2001-2003
Francesco Frangialli
Manufacturer: World Tourism Organization Pubns
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What is more important--race or class--in determining the socioeconomic success of the blacks and whites born since the civil rights triumphs of the 1960s? When compared to whites, African Americans complete less formal schooling, work fewer hours at a lower rate of pay and are more likely to give birth to a child out of wedlock and to rely on welfare. Are these differences attributable to race per se, or are they the result of differences in socioeconomic background between the two groups?
Being Black, Living in the Red demonstrates that many differences between blacks and whites stem not from race but from economic inequalities that have accumulated over the course of American history. Property ownership--as measured by net worth--reflects this legacy of economic oppression. The racial discrepancy in wealth holdings leads to advantages for whites in the form of better schools, more desirable residences, higher wages, and more opportunities to save, invest, and thereby further their economic advantages.
Dalton Conley shows how factoring parental wealth into a reconceptualization of class can lead to a different future for race policy in the United States. As it currently stands, affirmative action programs primarily address racial diversity in schooling and work--areas that Conley contends generate paradoxical results with respect to racial equity. Instead he suggests an affirmative action policy that fosters minority property accumulation, thereby encouraging long-term wealth equity, or one that--while continuing to address schooling and work--is based on social class as defined by family wealth levels rather than on race.

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Great text on social policy.......2006-11-30

I originally purchased this book when it came out about 7 years ago and just reread it again. It provides great insight into the inequality between races in this country. Highly recommended.

One of the most thought-provoking books I've ever read.......2001-09-20

This book is both meticulous and very clearly written. Every time I had, while reading Conley's analysis, a nagging question in the back of my head, he went on to address it in far more detail than had even occurred to me.

Perhaps because of this thoroughness, _Being Black, Living in the Red_ fundamentally altered the way I think about certain social policies, and about race and wealth in general. It also interested me in sociology of inequality, a field about which I had known nothing. The book is incredibly informative about a matter of great public importance, but I appreciated that Conley seemed wary of overstating his case. I truly felt I was getting an honest, and extremely skillful, evaluation of the evidence.

Under the circumstances, I'd be hard pressed to do anything but advise you to read this book at the first chance you get.

A Wealth of Ideas.......2001-06-04

This book expands the research base that identifies wealth as a key component of mobility, and an important factor that explains why blacks and whites have divergent outcomes. However, Conley may be overemphasizing the role of wealth, and forgeting that race is still a critical issues. In fact, his models show that wealth is only a small part of the story. A great deal of the unexplained variance in Conley's models may be attributed to discrimination in society. Although Conley mentions this briefly, more attention needs to focus on this aspect the issue. Nevertheless, the discussions of wealth are rich and well developed, making this an important addition to the literature.

problems abound.......2001-02-12

The analysis is sound. This is to say, the examination of the relevant history and current structures, coupled with an examination of effects, is accurate and valid. However, the argument for implications is unsound - dangerously so. It seems that those driven to understand precisely why some people are faced with more challenges than others are usually willing to go the next step - to argue for engineered adjustments, blind to the fact that such programs engineer even more odious, systematic inequities.

It Takes A Village (and more).......2000-02-27

This is truly a groundbreaking book. Dalton Conley finally reveals the key element on pg. 118 in two unassuming little words: reserve stock. This is, ladies and gentlemen of the judging class, what separates the races and classes, NOT skin color or intelligence level. In the absence of such, no one can truly believe (except in fairy tales) that most people can overcome grinding poverty and helplessness to become productive members of society. Aside from mere technical support, that cherished "reserve stock" allows one entrance into arenas not usually penetrable via associations with those generous enough to usher one in. Trying to overcome the obstacles of poverty is like trying to drag a car without snow tires up a steep hill. I commend the youthful yet astute Dalton Conley for his valuable work.

Living the Dream : It's Time!: A Chronicle of the Gathering of Equals

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How Spiritual Awakening Really Happens
This book captures the spirit of the Gatherings impeccably!

Living the Dream : It's Time!: A Chronicle of the Gathering of Equals
Mark Conrad , and Keith Varnum
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How Spiritual Awakening Really Happens.......2003-09-30

Enlightening. True. Heart-warming. Living the Dream-It's Time takes us inside a spiritual workshop where we experience our awareness unfolding alongside the workshop participants. If you've ever searched for answers to life's most poignant questions, like "Who am I?" "What's the purpose of life?" and "How do I find love, money or health?" this book offers valuable insights. Scattered throughout the book are the exercises that the co-author and facilitator, Keith Varnum, uses to assist people to discover their own answers. The book is a play-by-play account of the wisdom that was elicited during the workshops, The Dream-A Gathering of Equals, throughout its yearlong travels.

Unique about this book is that one of the workshop participants, Mark Conrad, is the co-author. Conrad reveals what lead him to the workshops: "I was on the treadmill called a "normal" life with more "success" than many because of my tenacity and ambitious drive. Way deep inside, I knew there was more, but it was way down there." Along with the rest of the workshop folks, Conrad experiences profound transformation.

The book touches readers where they live-right smack in the middle of life-looking for a deeper, more satisfying road to happiness. We experience the joys and the tears, the humor and the fears. The participants eventually discover an inner wisdom about life, love, themselves and spirit that they weren't even aware they knew. In The Gatherings, people feel safe enough to face issues and realizations that previously they hadn't been willing to face. The effect was to provide personal evidence for members of the group that they did have great reservoirs of wisdom, strength, clarity, intuition, love and spiritual depth. Playfully, people were tricked into discovering their own magnificence and equality! Group members came to the common understanding that all participants, including the facilitator, were equal in knowing, personal power, depth of compassion, and spiritual awareness.

Direct quotes from the participants showed many diverse points of view and profound insights. Varnum triggered this gold mine of sharing through presenting own stories of magic, wonder and miracles.

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I am a dedicated participant in the Gatherings of which this book is about, and I have been truly amazed and pleased at the way the spirit of the Gatherings is captured within these pages.

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Yippee! A new book coming from this author!.......2006-04-28

I came to Amazon to locate a copy of this book for a friend -- and discovered that the author has a new book coming. I can hardly wait. "Mercy, Lord" is a delicious little book. It makes you feel that you want the author as a best friend. She touches feelings and experiences we all share with a deftness that makes you feel wrapped in her knowing compassion and wonderful wit. If time has ripened her terrific writing skills, her new book is going to be a huge treat!

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An important and interesting book.......2005-04-03

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For over two decades Metallica has been testing the boundaries of speed, heaviness, and volume with their music, selling over 85 million albums in the process and becoming one of the biggest musical acts in American history. Their early years were a blur of drunken club dates and endless tours. Later they became one of the world's most respected extreme metal acts despite the death of their bass player Cliff Burton. They have engaged in a legal tussle with Napster, and have gone through rehab and therapy to emerge from the other side a new and wiser band. As well as telling Metallica's story with a level of detail and eyewitness veracity which has never been attempted before, Joel McIver has exposed the biggest myths about the band and told the simple truth about how they originated and what the real facts are. He has interviewed over 75 prominent musicians, producers, writers, band associates and Metallica family members to get to the truth behind what really happened in the world of Hetfield, Ulrich, and company.

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Hardly does ...Justice .......2006-01-04

What i found ironic after reading this book is that the author begins by constantly emphasizing that this book unearths all the truths and misconceptions about Metallica, however loads the pages with opinions.
Yes the biography does contain a great amount of indepth information, however I felt as if most of this ended after the author finished describing Master of Puppets. It seemed as if the author put all his efforts into describing up until rough 1988 and then couldnt wait to conclude his work (with the exception of the napster saga which did seem very well researched). The Kill 'Em All- Master of Puppets time frame seems so indepth, while 1993 (end of touring for the black album) onward seems like it was summed up in about 10 pages (again with the exception of the napster case).
While I found the facts to be interesting and noteworthy, I found the author's opinions to be hypocritical, contradictory and even far fetched. He himself seems to have jumped on the anit-Metallica banwagon.
I would recommend this book only to serious fans of Metallica, who can look past the authors opinions and are interested in picking up tidbits of f.y.i's and such.

Ok Read, Maybe More If You Are Some Fanatic.......2005-11-27

The book is okay. As other readers have said I think the writer spent to much time on disecting every song, and talking about the various types of sub-genres of music. He spent so much time on the superficial things he left out so much about the twenty year career these guys have shared. It is an ok book but not even close to a rock biography such as "Scar Tissue" or "Shakey" the Neil Young Biography.

An excellent biography.......2005-09-12

Justice For All is an extensively researched and well written book. For sources, McIver draws primarily from about 70 self-conducted interviews with musicians, journalists, and music industry insiders, many of whom were directly acquainted with Metallica.

McIver seems to embark on two separate projects with this book. First, he is presenting an historical account of the band intended to tell the Metallica story in vivid detail. This he does quite well, and it is for this reason that I think the book is worth buying. I haven't read any other full biographies of Metallica, but I can't imagine there's a better one out there that is as recent as this one, which was released in 2004 and includes information through the St. Anger/Some Kind of Monster sessions.

Second, McIver is offering a full, song-by-song record review for every Metallica album released (including St. Anger). The author makes no pretenses about being objective--he states at the outset that he will give his opinions. And give his opinions he certainly does. Put simply, McIver believes Master of Puppets was the apogee of Metallica's musical genius--what came before it was an ascent to greatness, while what followed was a series of disillusioning let-downs that left many fans (McIver included) feeling alienated. What I found frustrating about each of his record reviews from ...And Justice For All forward was that McIver incessantly demanded that Metallica give him "Master of Puppets II". He seemed to ignore the fact that most artists don't want to create the same work twice; they want to grow musically and constantly aspire to new sonic possibilities. As a musician and songwriter, I found it somewhat irritating that McIver was so persistent with his insistence for more of the same from Metallica.

What made this even more of an issue for me was that McIver, only three pages into the text, exhorts the reader to "keep an open mind" (xv). I found myself thinking back to this line each time McIver made an assertion like the following (in reference to Load and Reload): "The one overriding fact is that these two albums simply aren't very good" (253). What happened to keeping an open mind?

However, these are just opinions, and I don't think one should base the decision to purchase the book on whether (s)he shares McIver's views or not. While I think the book might have been stronger as a pure biography (i.e., minus the record reviews), the reader can look past McIver's opinions if (s)he desires.

In short, Justice for All is a valuable history/biography regardless of your stance on Metallica's music. I highly recommend it for anyone interested in understanding the band's origins and history or the 1980s metal scene more generally.

Justice For All: The Opinion On Metallica.......2005-07-28

I actually thought this was a decent book about Metallica. Being a fan since the age of 8, when ...And Justice For All was released, I was looking forward to yet another good book about Metallica. What "truths" I got instead were those the opinions of the author, who believes that any music Metallica has written that doesn't fit under the "thrash" catagory, is crap.
I found a lot of the information in this book to be quite interesting, especially the chapter about Napster. Other than that, the way the author can't seem to let go of the past and the fact that he seems to be locked inside the loop of the 16th beat, is quite annoying.
This book is a good read if you don't take the author's opinions too seriously.

the complete metallica story.......2005-02-08

this book was written by a real fan of metallica who tells it like it is he thinks most of the new stuff sucks but explains why he thinks they havent sold out they have just grown old and evolved this book has lots of rare pictures of old metallica and is worth buying for the large section on cliff burton with painstaking research on how they started and tons of hilarious storys never told before metallica may be old farts now but they forever changed rock music and no current metal band comes close to the complexity of metallicas old stuff if you want to know the full story and learn more about the amazing cliff burton buy this book it tells u about the entire early thrash metal scene and how metallica rose to the top of it

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The best and most revealing interviews from the prococative TV series/DVD of the same name.

Richard Metzger presents the most compelling interviews from the hit TV series Disinformation, revealing mind-blowing thoughts from modern culture's most radical thinkers: Paul Laffoley on how to build a working time machine and a house made of vegetables; Douglas Rushkoff explains "media viruses"; Lucifer Principle author Howard Bloom on the coming biological apocalypse; Genesis P-Orridge on what it's like to be the leader of your own cult; Joe Coleman's collection of weird stuff; Robert Anton Wilson on The Illuminati and Aleister Crowley; Kembra Pfahler on The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black; Duncan Laurie on the forbidden science of radionics; and comics author Grant Morrison (The Invisibles, JLA, X-Men) on sex magick, Hollywood's interest in underground culture and the best alien abduction story you'll ever hear! Plus, many more modern revolutionaries (including philosopher Peter Russell, futurist Mark Pesce, and Apocalypse Culture's Adam Parfrey) expressing their thoughts, fears, enthusiasms, and predictions.

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A happy accident.......2003-01-11

I first picked up this book out of curiousity when it was among the "Staff Picks" at Forbidden Planet book shop in NYC.

Challenging interviewing that gets to the core can only come from a writer who chooses to be interested as well as interesting.I always like when work like this is smart but not detached. By the very exploration of such arcania, there is no detachment and Metzger doesn't pretend there isn't.

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Hello to the "reality " check.......2002-12-31

If you believe everything you hear from the Bush Administration, if you believe what your told by the media tycoons such as AOL/Time Warner - DON'T READ THIS BOOK!

Seeming weened on the internet of unlimited exploration and assimilation, Metzger has an unquenchable thirst for those creative and daring personalities operating "outside of the box".
With a charismatic passion for the lunatic fringe, Metzger suspends judgment and delves into the psychosis of individuals who dare to examine the means of normative thought production.

Knowing first of Metzger's work as an interviewer as well as editor, I became aware of the illuminating and brilliant thinking of Douglas Rushkoff interpreting future media, along with the utopian dreams of Paul Laffoley and Peter Russell. It's true that Metzger "participates" rather than "observe", but he's clearing taking it all in, and so will you.

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A volatile subcultural primer.......2002-11-23

This book is comprised of selections from nearly a dozen important interviews conducted for the Disinformation television series, which unfortunately most Americans have never been allowed the opportunity to see. That may change soon with the release of the Disinformation DVD, but in the meantime this book gives you an excellent overview of the varied thinkers, artists, and pop-cultural agents provocateurs whom Richard Metzger had the good sense to engage in conversation.

All of the material here is extremely thought-provoking and these subjects are fascinatingly articulate in presenting their distinctive worldviews.

Generally the mainstream media avoids any acknowledgment of the sort of ideas you will be exposed to here, which is no wonder since after encountering some of these lines-of-thinking, you'll probably have little use left for the opinions of the status quo.

With its slick packaging and design, this book is akin to a glittering trojan horse, loaded with an army of hardened suicide bombers who will feel no pain as they detonate all your preconceptions. Open the gates!

Visionary Artists and Brilliant Ideas.......2002-11-19

Another wonderful book from the disinfo crew. Unlike the past volumes, this one includes brilliant color reproductions of some truly mindblowing art. Richard Metzger has had the courage to challenge the system over the years, and has somehow managed to get some pretty insane stuff out over the airwaves. This book documents some of his finer moments, and it is great to see some of these groundbreaking artists get the attention they so rightly deserve. A fantastic book that I STRONGLY RECOMMEND.

A PRIMER FOR THINKING.......2002-11-19

Usually I wouldn't review a book that included myself. But the groundlessly destructive review by John Conroy necessitates ensuring that potential readers of this book be informed of why it is ESSENTIAL reading. The primary criticism I can isolate by JC is that the 12 people interviewed herein are not 21st Century. In fact, familiar as I am with many of the concepts, strategies and commentaries discussed with incredible honesty and compassion in these texts, I still found this a re-awakening-up call. we live in a time where the ignorance of the young in terms of what should be their own youth culture is staggering. Television, especially MTV, colludes with corporate greed and political apathy to train us globally to believe in infinite novelty, and the inate superiority of any and all products presented as NEW. For an informed opinion to be made, information must be available, but more than that, our brains must learn to process and evaluate. Dismissing strategies concerned with the very central issues that our survival as a flawed species depends upon, laying bare bigotry and thoughtlessness , simply because they have their origin at an arbitrary and linear point in time before January 1st 2001 is quite ridiculous. As far as I am concerned, ANYTHING that helps me make sense of consensus reality, from any era past, present or future, or from any dimension, is fine and dandy by me. I am not date predjudiced, nor ageist. In fact most of what fueled my own explorations of life and creativity was encouraged by people active in the 50's like Burroughs and Gysin. I am convinced that even now, their ideas are affecting the very material of popular culture as I write.(eg. sampling, language and media as virus). The people in this book have fought long and hard against laziness, inertia, sarcasm, economic violence, and a status quo policed by mass media control and even by direct victimsation at times. Ideas are timeless. They build upon each other, mutate and develop, remaining valid by their application, first by a daring and unorthodox few, later by clusters of like-minded people. My observations of cultral dynamics so far lead me to feel blessed that anyone has the nerve to stand up and speak from the heart, when even their own, and/or future generations, do not wish to listen because to listen would require change, ethics and effort. This book is a primer of imagination and speculation built from the combined guerilla mindfare of apparently unrelated subcultures. There is no reason to ridicule any person for believing there is hope within hopelessness. Don't forget hopelessness is taught, and agressive meanness of spirit is taught, in order to distract us all from the numb surrender to oblivion that corporate youth culture and nihilism spawns. I say, bless these people for daring to speak, daring to repeat theemselves until they are heard. Who cares what year it is? The fact is the species is in crisis, and communication, and knowledge of how things WORK in culture is vital as a skill and a beginning of a new way on. I un-reservedly support all readers to get this new Anarchist's Software as part of your real education as to what is going on within the pixels of greed and the algebra of insatiable need that is contemporary mediated "reality". Buy this book, and if you are already awake, remember WHY. If you are dozing, wake up!

Richard Metzger is facillitating the visibility of issues and analogous strategies in the altruistic hope that change of an essential kind can still happen, despite ourselves. This thankless (at times) task, is sometimes discouraging work. Nevertheless, let us learn to drive ourselves crazy with praise, not criticism, with understanding, not bigotry, with character building, not character assasination.

I was amazed how much of the content of this book seemed vibrant and fresh, and still so important to say and re-MIND us all of.

My one negative about the book. There are a couple of jumbled paras on pages 44,45 and 46 that need correcting in the second printing.

I hate to sound as petty as he, and forgive this gap in my appreciation of the movers and shakers and seminal thinkers of our times, but I haven't come across a contribution, so far, by John Conroy that gives his subjective and groundless opinions either authority or credibility. I am a great believer in doing more yourself, rather than complaining about what others have done.

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Disinformation. The Interviews
Richard Metzger
Manufacturer: Disinformation Co.Ltd.
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Binding: Paperback
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Well written but biased.......2007-05-01

This book is well written and really tells the story of berlusconis rise, but it is biased against Berlusconi who what ever the critics say is a Great Man who has accomlished alot and not some idiot bureaucrat that usually runs countries these days.

Master.......2006-03-09

Ginsborg is truly a master of italian history, society, and politics. I am not at all surprised with the overwhelming expertise displayed is this book, seeing as all Ginsborg's works display the extent of his knowledge and literary skill. A great "riassunto" of Berlusconi from youth to today, and fairly non-partisan.

Italy is very close to home.......2005-11-19

The author of this book knows how to dramatizize politics. "...something important is happening in Italy, potentially quite sinister, and the seeming normality of life serves to mask it very well." If only it were just a fiction. "Silvio Berlsconi" is a great book on the current state of democracy in Italy, the kind of "modern democracy" heralded by Berlusconi's media empire. If the dictators of the early 20th century have been characterizes as "charismatic leaders" pied pipering away their cults of personality, then today's dictator can be thought of as the sort of highly tailored, well edited "iconic leader," the guy who just LOOKS RIGHT for the job. (Paul Ginsbourg includes a hilarious anecdote in the post-script about Berlusconi who, at a recent press conference, showed up with a face lift he had gotten over Christmas and then proceeds to make the most unfortunate analogy: "The communists...tried to have a face lift in order to hide their real identity, but theirs failed.")
As relentlessly critical as Ginsbourg is to Berlusconi, it is hard to ignore the facts of his presidency, both rise to and the policies to follow. It is also hard to ignore the remarkable similarity between the current state of Italian politics and those of the U.S. As Ginsbourg writes, "All this will have a familiar ring in Anglo-Saxon ears."
Democracy is becoming increasingly about television and leadership about being televised. What happens to "freedom" in a community connected only by cable? Ginsbourg makes a couple claims of his own, but the exciting aspect of the book is the fact that it raises such questions at all.

The Tale is Told of You.......2004-09-14

Italian politics since 1945 has often seemed too unstable and esoteric for most Americans. Paul Ginsborg's short polemic about Silvio Berlusconi shows why people should pay attention. The Berlusconi phenomenon is an amazing, and quite appalling, one. From 1992 to 1994, it was revealed that the conservative Christian Democratic party, which had held uninterrupted power since the war, was deeply, deeply corrupt. So corrupt in fact, that the revelation caused its disintergration. But instead of the Right losing the next elections, a wealthy businessman came along and simply bought a new political party. Silvio Berlusconi's "Forza Italia" was not a party devoted to political debate and discussion. It was staffed by his cronies and devoted to his political cult. With it he won the elections of 1994, even though he was himself deeply compromised by the old regime. Serious allegations of corruption soon led to his loss of power and his electoral defeated in 1996. But he returned to power in 2001. Now in point of fact, the charges against him are more than just "allegations", as that infamous left-wing rag, The Economist, has pointed out. Berlusconi has perjured himself about his membership in a conspiratorial, anti-democratic, quasi-fascist masonic lodge. (He benefited from an amnesty). In the seventies his keeper of one his (one-horse) stables was a notorious mafioso. His personal lawyer, Cesare Preveti, has been convicted of 11 year and 5 year sentences for corrupting judges, though he remains free on appeal. Berlusconi delays his trials to run up against the limitations laws. He amends the limitations laws to render himself immune. He changes the rules of evidence so that trials will be further delayed. And when all that fails, he passes laws giving himself immunity, while seeking to undermine the independence of the magistrates.

This is bad. And it gets worse. For as Ginsborg notes Berlusconi is still backed by more than 40% of Italians. His defeat in 2006 is by no means a sure thing. Indeed he plans to become a powerful President of the Republic. This despite his judical troubles, an anaemic economy, and support for a massively unpopular war. This despite his failure to simplify administrative procedures, or start promised infrastructure projects, though he has reduced the penalties for accounting fraud. Ginsborg himself is one of the leading historians of modern Italy, and he points out Berlusconi's origins in the Milan building trade. He points out how Berlusconi benefited from the intervention of the infamously corrupt Bettino Craxi, who in 1984 ignored the courts and constitutional mandates for a proper broadcasting law to pass a decree without which Berlusconi could not maintain his broadcasting monopoly. (He also points out how Craxi was the godfather of Berlusconi's child out of wedlock, and how Berlusconi comically elides his adultery in discussing the end of his first marriage.) Although Ginsborg tries to be fair, there is not much to be said about about Berlusconi's media: the absence of proper news coverage and documentaries, rampant bias in Berlusconi's favor, more advertisements than the rest of Europe combined, two-hour documentaries about stigmatic priests, a sexism that sometimes seems to have come out of Lolita.

Berlusconi is not a fascist, but he is a threat to democracy. To be exact, he wishes to make democracy safe for the Right and for wealthy people like himself. One should be wary of a man who claims "Better fascism than the bureaucratic tyranny of the judiciary." The party euphemizes the fascist past, with public places and spaces named after "acceptable" fascists and with Berlusconi claiming that Mussolini didn't murder anyone. Whether it is the Bank of Italy, the civil service, public broadcasting, magistrates or the public health system, all have their independence and integrity threatened by Berlusconi. Meanwhile he deals with Murdoch and his own media empire as if conflict of interest laws don't exist, which in Italy they don't. His model polity is a world in which mass apathy is punctuated by his biased media and his political image, where people consent, but do not choose. Ginsborg points out how this project is encouraged by the weaknesses of a centre-left which, purged of its Marxist past, cannot seek to mobilize support, which seeks to compromise and which cannot inspire with its technocratic biases, and which, for one reason or another, cannot attack Berlusconi's venality. Ginsborg's book is not perfect (a law undermining magisterial independence is not made clear, while Ginsborg overestimates the influence of the late Canadian media lord Izzy Aspser). But in an era with declining voter turnout and declining independent media, where media monopoly advances with partisan and unscrupulous conservative politics, and where the left, the centre, and the right-centre are too nervous and exhausted to resist, there are good reasons to fear that Berlusconi's Italy could soon be our world.

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One of the Better Books Out there on SAMBA

Great technical reference for advanced use of Samba

Sadly disappointed

Samba 2 and not Samba 3

Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide, The (2nd Edition) (Bruce Perens' Open Source Series)
John H. Terpstra , and Jelmer R. Vernooij
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Samba, open source replacement for Micro$oft's networks........2007-01-09

Samba is great and this book covered the subject thoroughly. Very pleased.

One of the Better Books Out there on SAMBA.......2005-10-24

I tried to get started with SAMBA, but could never get off the ground using material printed in many Linux books. After going through this book, I realized many key concepts that I was missing, such as windows domain accounts to Unix account mappings and such.

This book has an abundance of information in it. Some things that look exciting were some information about the PDC/BDC style integratrion and also Active Directory Kerberos integration. There's also a section on CUPS integration.

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Great technical reference for advanced use of Samba.......2005-09-18

This is not an introduction to Samba but a technical reference written by those who know it best - the Samba Team. If you already know something about Samba then this is the place you will find very detailed explanations of all the internal and external capabilities of Samba-3.0.11 and higher. While it is easy enough to find information on how to set Samba up as a file and print server, how to use its other features is harder information to come by. This book details setting up Samba as a domain controller, backup domain controller, or domain member, network browsing, access controls, record locking, securing Samba, interdomain trusts, printing support, user profiles, administration, monitoring, and tuning. A voluminous tome, most people will not be inclined to read through it but would more likely read the sections relevant to their current needs and the book is organized so that it is easy to use that way. A true technical reference it has everything you are likely to ever want to know about Samba-3 and how to set it up correctly as well as how to resolve common problems. This is a reference that I will be keeping close at hand and you will want to too if you use Samba-3. The Official Samba-3 Howto and Reference Guide, Second Edition is highly recommended.

Sadly disappointed.......2004-12-30

Anxious to set up samba at home I headed down to the local bookstore and picked up this book at full price (perhaps the only samba 3 book there). I think I read about 1/4 of the book and have now decided it will be going back tomorrow. It's easy to read if you have some Windows and some Linux/UNIX experience, but every chapter is plagued with sentences an 8th grade student failing English could have pointed to problems! Sometimes it was difficult to determine what the meaning of some statements should be. In one chapter a discussion of non-encrypted passwords repeated advantages from the discussion of encrypted passwords, advantages that clearly do not exist!

It feels likes the HOWTOs from the Internet were simply copied, so why wasn't there time to edit?

Samba 2 and not Samba 3.......2004-12-30

This book reports the Samba 2 configuration examples and seems to ignore that Samba 3 "talks" directly with LDAP without the numerous "scripts" that are reported in the examples. This ia a Samba 2 daptation to the LDAP directory service and simply sucks!
If you want to make a donation to the Samba "father" John Terpstra, then buy the book but for real stuff, simply go in Internet, you will find exactly the same obsolete documentation, not a word more nor less.

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