The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics

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A very good book to get, if you are interested in theological issues and enjoy C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis is a genius!

Brilliant

The Answer Is Found.

A must for EVERY Chritian or those considering Christianity

The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics
C. S. Lewis
Manufacturer: HarperOne
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ASIN: 0061208493
Release Date: 2007-02-06

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Seven Spiritual Masterworks by C. S. Lewis

This classic collection includes C. S. Lewis's most important spiritual works:

Mere Christianity
The Screwtape Letters
The Great Divorce
The Problem of Pain
Miracles
A Grief Observed
The Abolition of Man

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A very good book to get, if you are interested in theological issues and enjoy C.S. Lewis.......2007-10-16

This is a very good book to understand more about the Christian faith and various topics like pain, miracles, grief. I would say that parts of the book are very well written apologetics, but since there are various books in this one volume, there are also different styles and genres...

The two works that are closest to fiction resemble different aspects of various prose, with "The Screwtape Letters" being written in a form of collected letters.

I can only endorse this book: It has been very helpful in understanding my faith and the varieties in the different denominations, because it was written with much wisdom and insight that many people can prosper from.

C.S. Lewis is a genius!.......2007-10-05

GREAT book! Arrived quick and in perfect condition. Some of my favorite works by this author.

Brilliant.......2007-10-01

Those that read his several works contained in this book will appreciate his straightword and understandable writing. Yet, still readers will be amazed at his deftness in describing heaven's honesty and glorifying light, and his illumination of hell's lies and destructive darkness. The book is awesome.

The Answer Is Found........2007-09-22

If you have any questions to the way life is a certain way, or just want to expand your mind and let new things in, this is the book. Lewis shows in one occasion that truth has the same meaning no matter what time and age you live in. In MERE CHRISTIANITY (my favorite), he uses what he calls the "natural law" and not once uses the bible to show why certain things can only come from a creator. EXCELLENT BOOK!!!

A must for EVERY Chritian or those considering Christianity.......2007-09-10

Christianity is a journey of discovery and growth... Lewis, a one-time-atheist, has written incredible stories and teaching works that have inspired Christians and surprised everyone else for the better part of the last century. His way of bringing to light the answers to questions you have, and expounding on questions you might not have thought of yet will help anyone on their way to understanding powerful truths in life. Reading C S Lewis has shaped my understanding of my own faith in a way i could not have conceived. he does not present new and controversial ideas, or formulas... he merely helps to understand age old issues that affect us all.

This book is a well put together collection of some of his greatest apologetic works that prove and illuminate the Christian Faith. If you don't have it, get it! Then, go out and get his other works, like The Cosmic Trilogy, or The Chronicle of Narnia. Lewis infuses his powerful ideas into these as well, and tells brilliantly woven stories that enthrall our imaginations and inspire our hearts. Please Enjoy...

The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics

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The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics
C. S. Lewis
Manufacturer: HarperSanFrancisco
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OES87O

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A fine account of an important though largely ignored part of our history.......2007-09-27

This is a very readable book. With Irons's use of primary sources, Southern workers come to life at a time when they were at their most heroic. It describes the strike of cotton textile workers in four southern states in September 1934, which was part of a general strike of textile workers stretching from New England to Georgia. I've heard this strike called the largest in American history. It describes how hundreds of thousands of poor whites across the south launched a mass movement for economic justice. The author states that this strike has been a very painful episode over the years in the communities in which it affected. The workers were intimidated into submission in the years after the strike. The Wagner Act, according to Irons, did not help them much. Their story seems all too typically American.

Throughout the 1920's, what we today call "downsizing" hit the textile industry full force. The decade saw the emergence of theories on efficiency and "scientific management." Mill owners began pushing aside their pre-capitalist paternalism and started firing workers and increased the workloads of the remaining workers at levels extremely hazardous to physical and mental well-being. In textile mills, the increased workload was called the "stretch-out." These measures increased once the great depression hit and there were many strikes at individual plants which responded by firing strikers, evicting them from their homes in company towns, sending masked men to kidnap union organizers and drive them out of town, etc.etc. Now with Roosevelt in power, there was a major law passed in June 1933, the National Industrial Recovery Act, (NIRA), section 7a of which stated that workers had the right to organize unions and not suffer employee intimidation for doing so. Southern workers were very optimistic, Irons shows quoting their letters to Roosevelt.

For two years, from June 1933 to May 1935 after the NIRA passed, an attempt was made to organize the country's economy through a bureaucracy called the National Recovery Administration (NRA). The NRA was supposed to work with businesses in each industry and draw up a code for each regulating prices, wages, output levels and so on. The aim was to stabilize these industries and eliminate the cutthroat competition which had contributed to causing the Great Depression. Implementation of the textile code was handed over to a committee dominated by textile mill owners. A special NRA committee to analyze the feasibility of reducing or expanding the stretch-out was formed but it was chaired by an industry-friendly industrial engineer. The other members of this committee were an anti-union mill owner and the leader of the printing-pressman's union, George L. Berry. Irons describes how Berry left the running of the board to the other two though occasionally he wrote letters to the leaders of the United Textile Workers (UTW) demanding they do more to reign in the militancy of southern textile mill workers. When the NRA textile mill code went into effect in the summer of 1933 it called for reduced production which gave many mills the impetus to lay off workers and intensify the workload on the remaining members. Minimum wages set by the code were often the maximum wages paid. Firings of union members increased, as did evictions from company housing and physical and sexual abuse by overseers. Many workers started joining locals of the UTW. Complaints were sent to Washington by workers such as relating to the refusal of overseers to open windows in horrendously humid mill work rooms and sexual abuse of female employees. These complaints were almost always rerouted to the special NRA subcommittee on the stretch-out which rarely did anything more than send an investigator who would listen to employer denials and then leave.
The way Irons describes it, the UTW was a big problem for southern textile mill workers. The UTW leadership, as was the leadership of most unions, was anxious to increase its own power by gaining places of influence in the NRA bureaucracy. They wanted to prove their lack of militancy and their devotion to efficiency in business...They were dragged reluctantly into the strike.

Irons shows how southern workers managed to spread the strike wave dramatically with little help from the cash strapped UTW. The strike saw terrible violence. 15 strikers were killed, including the seven by gunfire at Honea Path South Carolina. Irons reconstruct the Honea Path massacre in a way that shows its barbarity, in contrast to previous efforts to minimize it.

The strike ended after a few weeks in September 1934. Mill owners were able to create a climate of fear and insecurity amongst workers. In Georgia, Irons notes, the Democratic governor Eugene Talmadge did not send out the national guard for a while. But after he won the Democratic primary that mid-September and he was thus electorally safe, he declared martial law and imprisoned many striking workers. Some mill owners apparently met with him and gave him a generous campaign contribution just before the election. However the biggest factor ending the strike was FDR using his prestige amongst the poor workers to get them to go back to work. In return for calling off the strike, workers were promised they would not be fired once they returned and a new NRA board was created to hear complaints from textile workers about employer treatment.

Despite Roosevelt's assurances, union members were fired en masse once they returned to work and the climate of fear was maintained in southern textiles. This new NRA textile labor board, Irons shows, made its pro-industry bias clear by its method in conducting its own investigation of the stretch-out. It had received complaints about the use of the stretch-out from 249 of 1200 mills in the south. It decided to investigate 36 of those mills and found 11 of them to have valid worker complaints about the stretch out. Thus with this method it decided that only 6.5 percent of the mills were engaged in excessive workloads.

An untold New Deal labor story.......2000-04-16

Janet Irons provides a comprehensive look at a shockingly neglected piece of US labor history: the 1934 general strike of southern textile workers. Irons convincingly shows that the impetus for the strike came from the workers, and that the leadership of the United Textile Workers of America was out of touch and committed to an outdated style of leadership from the top. One of the most fascinating areas Irons explores is the effects of mass communication, new hard-surfaced roads, and inexpensive autos in enabling Southern workers to innovate a new organizing technique: the flying squadron. Teams of strikers in cars and trucks went from mill to mill throughout the Piedmont to spread the walk-out. A minor drawback to the book is its failure to put the textile strike in a broader context. The fall of 1934 saw a general strike in San Francisco and labor unrest in Seattle, Minneapolis and other cities. Arguably, FDR's New Dealers had a lot more than the textile situation on their minds in this period. There is not doubt that Irons's book is an important contribution to an emerging, more nuanced view of southern workers and their alleged passivity.

Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South. (Book Reviews).(Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History

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Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South. (Book Reviews).(Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History
Annette C. Wright
Manufacturer: Southern Historical Association
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ASIN: B0008IIUX8
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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Title: Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Author: Annette C. Wright
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 2001
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
Volume: 67 Issue: 4 Page: 890(2)

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Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South (The Working Class in American History)

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Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South (The Working Class in American History)
Janet Irons
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQH4TA

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Eat well, eat diversely, and eat economically! Cheap Chow Chicago, newly updated and even more gastronomically encompassing, shows just where to find the perfect delectable edible according to cuisine, neighborhood, price, time of day, and state of mind. From late night to Latin, bountiful brunches to barbeque, and all you can eat to Asian; chock-full of insightful reviews, tips about the tastiest and cheapest treats, and snippets of local lore; this book is a must for the Chicago shoestring gourmand. This third edition includes three indexes organized by name, neighborhood, and type of cuisine, as well as more in-depth editorials of featured restaurants.

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Lives up to the title.......2007-09-17

My daughter gave me this book a couple of years ago when we visited her in Chicago. I love to try different foods, especially when visiting Chicago, and this book proved a valuable tool. While it is not all-inclusive, there were many good recomendations. Overall I'd recommend this book to anyone visiting Chicago, and to Chicagoans who want soemthing diferent as well.

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On my list of favorite books.......2002-12-29

I first discovered this book at my local library, and read it two times, and shared it with my husband to read before returning it, reluctantly, to the library's collection. I hastily decided that I had to have my own copy, and ordered one here, in the bundle with "From the Ground Up" which I also recommend.
Meg DesCamp takes you on a journey from the beginnings of home ownership, with mild self depricating humor similar to author Anne Lammott. Through interior decorating mishaps, adventures with her cats, sisters and husband, and adventures in gardening, we're there as her first garden becomes part of her family.

I learned so much about gardening from this book, and especially appreciate its Pacific Northwest climate references-being set in Portland, OR. I enjoyed her approach and prose, and look forward to another book by this great storyteller.

Bad gardeners unite!.......2001-12-22

Plant journals may sound dull, but if you find the right one to read you will not only laugh your head off, but you'll learn a lot about plants as well. After reading Gayla's Plant Journal on YouGrowGirl.com, and then attempting to write my own, I was lucky enough to find this book crammed in the back of the gardening section of my favorite used bookstore. Slug Tossing: And Other Adventures of a Reluctant Gardener by Meg DesCamp is the hilarious saga of her attempt to grow flowers at her home in Portland. While she learns about soil, compost, feeding plants and so on, you do too. It's like taking a horticulture class where you spy on the worst student in the room. You'll find yourself giggling while reading about evil slugs, peat moss (as DesCamp says, "Peat moss. What the hell is peat moss?"), ladybugs and weed pulling. By the way, this is a great book to give as presents for your gardener pals.

I couldn't stop laughing.......2000-04-10

I read this book in one day, and could not stop laughing. I learned a lot about gardening in the process. I think many of us come to love gardening in the same way. Great book!

Great book--far too short.......1999-05-18

I fell in love with the book by page 13 and highly recommend it to all writers and gardener. The only problem with this charming book is that it's too short--I wanted, no needed more. Thank you, Meg, for sharing your garden and thoughts. PS: I love roses, cliche or not, and Cecile is my favorite (okay, so I have an addiction but only 3 Ceciles, and okay 70 plus roses).

Absolutely charming!!.......1998-06-09

This is one of those books that,"You have had to be there.. to appreciate!! It was so much of my life and how my gardens started.. Right down to Starbucks coffee, the tree "experts",and when they went looking for warmth and got off the plane in Palm Springs!!!!I knew someone had been peeking at my life! Couldn't put it down until I had finished and am sharing it with other garden friends..My sister gave it to me for my birthday and asked, "Did you write this?"

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Wooly Willy magnetic drawing kits are among the 40 most popular toys and games produced from 1950 to 1980. The classic toy, complete with clear plastic dome and metal shavings, forms the front cover of this engagement calendar. There's even a magnetic wand that doubles as a ballpoint pen. The weekly grids are decorated with Wooly Willy portrait creations.

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Professor Junhao Hong provides the first systematic study of China's television, the largest and one of the most complicated television systems in the world. China's television represents a highly complicated communication system, a powerful ideological machine, and a unique social manifestation. As Professor Hong illustrates, during the past 20 years, since the country's reform, television has experienced tremendous changes. While many studies of media globalization attribute the phenomenon mainly to external factors--new technologies, global capital flows, and quality production of Western programming--Hong argues that in many countries internal factors, such as government policy and the evolution of society, play decisive roles for change. Based on firsthand data and interviews with China's high-ranking officials and policymakers this study will be of considerable value to scholars and researchers dealing with mass media/television issues in the developing world and with contemporary China.

The Internationalization of Television in China: The Evolution of Ideology, Society, and Media Since the Reform.(Review) (book review): An article from: Pacific Affairs

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The Internationalization of Television in China: The Evolution of Ideology, Society, and Media Since the Reform.(Review) (book review): An article from: Pacific Affairs
Graeme Lang
Manufacturer: University of British Columbia
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ASIN: B0008J0H5G
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on June 22, 2000. The length of the article is 610 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Internationalization of Television in China: The Evolution of Ideology, Society, and Media Since the Reform.(Review) (book review)
Author: Graeme Lang
Publication: Pacific Affairs (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2000
Publisher: University of British Columbia
Volume: 73 Issue: 2 Page: 285

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The Internationalization of Television in China: The Evolution of Ideology, Society, and Media Since the Reform

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The Internationalization of Television in China: The Evolution of Ideology, Society, and Media Since the Reform
Junhao Hong
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORKCCK

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This attractively priced boxed set brings together four leading books on the LaTeX software system for typesetting documents, covering all you need to know about LaTeX. Because LaTeX is especially good for technical documents and is freely available for almost any computer system, it has become a lingua franca of the scientific world. The first book in the set, Guide to LaTeX, 4/e, shows you how to begin using LaTeX, and also serves as a handy reference. The next three books, whose authors have taken a lead role in the development and dissemination of LaTeX's most recent versions, are The LaTeX Companion, 2/e, The Latex Graphics Companion, 2/e, and The LaTeX Web Companion. They provide further information on tools and techniques available for more complex typesetting needs, for incorporating graphics into documents, and for publishing technical text on the Web. Whether you are new to LaTeX or want to be sure that your LaTeX library is current and complete, you will find a useful place for this set on your reference shelf.

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