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Since World War II, Social Security and employer-based pension plans have become the foundations of an economic security that enables older Americans to retire with dignity and financial independence. Social insurance and tax advantaged retirement benefits currently face a number of challenges, however. The upcoming retirement of the baby boomers will swell the ranks of the retired, which are estimated to double by 2020, straining the Social Security and Medicare programs. Employers are struggling to keep their pension funds afloat, while fewer and fewer companies are offering traditional pension plans. Americans are living longer than ever before, which means they draw benefits longer, taxing the system.

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"They will attack you in the morning and they will come booming--skirmishers three-deep. You will have to fight like the devil."

A wonderful read, and a sincere search for truth

The Tragedy of Gettysburg

Superb Account of the Gettysburg Campaign

Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign (UNABRIDGED)
Shelby Foote
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Release Date: 1994-10-25

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Shelby Foote, who cut such a courtly figure in Ken Burns's PBS series The Civil War, is an uncommonly graceful writer as well, and this careful study of the 1863 Gettysburg campaign assumes the contours of a classical tragedy. Foote positions readers on the field of battle itself, among swirling smoke and clattering grapeshot, and invites us to feel for ourselves its hellishness: "men on both sides were hollering as they milled about and fired, some cursing, others praying ... not a commingling of shouts and yells but rather like a vast mournful roar." Foote's fine book is history as literature, and a welcome addition to any Civil War buff's library.

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Historian/novelist Foote's masterly work has been culled from his critically acclaimed three-volume narrative of the Civil War. 3 cassettes.

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As Good as it gets.......2007-06-27

I could write a long review about how good this book is but that would be a diservice to the author. We lost a great historian when Shelby Foote passed. He was a historian who prefered to be remembered as a novelist. As a proud Vermont Yankee, professional historian, and living historian of that period, I tend to get cranky about revisionist views or the whole Sourthern "lost cause" foolishness. However, Mr. Foote, a proud southerner, wrote about the most important event in our nation's history without the prejudice or regionalism, so many bring to the topic. He could write excellent history and tell the story with the readability of a novelist.

We are poorer for his passing but the body of work he left behind on the Civil War will remain some of the must have items in any serious collection of books about that second birth of our nation.

We'll miss you Shelby but thank you for what you left behind.

"They will attack you in the morning and they will come booming--skirmishers three-deep. You will have to fight like the devil.".......2006-07-04

Heth upon hearing a rumour that Early's men had over looked a suppy of shoes (many of his men were barefooted) when they passed though Gettysburg the week Sent his lead brigade under Johnston Pettigrew to investigate. Johnston Pettigrew returned on thr 30th of June, mindeful of Lee's warning not to bring on a battle till the whole army was at hand, prudently withdrew when he encountered Federal troopers along a creekbank west of town.
Heth still wanted those shoes so he took Pettigrew with him to repeat what he had seen to Hill. Hill responded "The only force at Gettysburg is calvalry, probably a detachment of oberservation. Mead's infantry are still down in Maryland and have not struck their tents." Heth was quick to reply "If there is no objection, I will take my division tommorrow and go to Gettysburg and get those shoes." "None in the world" said Hill.

Thus what started out as a movement for shoes ended in prehaps the most important battle of the War!

Sheby Foote is a master story teller who turns history in to classical literature. He includes many maps to help understand the grand movement of both armies.

Standing in the way of Heth's men to'get those shoes' was John Buford, a tough, Kentucky-born regular with a fondness for hard fighting. Though Hill was correct that at the moment there were only cavalry in Gettysburg, these troops (two brigades) were armed with the new seven shot Spencer carbine. They belong to Reynold's Corps who's infantry were that night camped just six miles from Gettysburg.

What would you do to 'get those shoes'?

*The title is from John Buford addressing his troops on 30 June 1863. "....You will have to fight like the devil until supports arrive."

A wonderful read, and a sincere search for truth.......2006-03-28

Imagine, if you can, a book written by a modern historian that actually seeks the truth. Imagine a book written by a modern historian that is not slanted to promote his/her politics. Imagine a 20th century historian that does not even mention the sexuality (alternative or otherwise), of any historical figures in an entire book.
If you are looking for "the truth" at Gettysburg, "Stars In Their Courses" is for you. Shelby Foote is a fine author, and has written the book in a captivating manner that I highly esteem. Pick this book up and give it a try, one chapter should do the trick. You will have a good feeling afterward that you have learned something worthwhile about American History.

The Tragedy of Gettysburg.......2006-01-22

"Stars in Their Courses" is a superb narrative account of the Battle of Gettysburg, excerpted from Foote's three volume history of the Civil War. Shelby Foote, a novelist and a son of the South before becoming an historian, approaches the Gettysburg Campaign as a tragic human drama, the high tide of Confederate arms for General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and the turning point of redemption for General George Meade's Army of the Potomac.

Foote's account of Gettysburg is absolutely gripping, full of the human details that make those events come alive for the student of the Civil War and the casual reader alike. Foote captures both the heroism of individuals and the sometimes blind blundering of large armies. Gettysburg is not Lee's finest hour; Foote's narrative may be fairly read to show that Lee's normally sure hand was absent over the three days of battle, allowing the Army of Northern Virginia to stumble into an unexpected battle. Lee's desire for a decisive victory and his underestimation of the long-suffering Army of the Potomac probably led him to persist in a clumsy and costly fight his army could not afford.

On the Union side, General Meade seems more driven than a driver of events, but his willingness to fight it out made possible the victory that his various valiant subordinates delivered. Meade's failure to vigorously follow up in the days after the battle probably cost the Union a chance to do much more damage to Lee's Army.

This book is highly recommended to the student of the Civil War and to the casual reader looking for a highly readable account of this critical battle.

Superb Account of the Gettysburg Campaign.......2005-02-06

Shelby Foote's monumental, three volume history of the American Civil War is widely recognized as one of the great works of the twentieth century. However, its great length - roughly three thousand pages - is undoubtedly intimidating to many readers. Fortunately, this 1994 Modern Library edition, Stars in Their Courses, the Gettysburg Campaign, circumvents this difficulty.

Stars in Their Courses is the middle chapter in the middle volume of Shelby Foote's remarkable history. This extract offers an easy way for a reader new to Shelby Foote to become acquainted with his masterpiece.

The editors of the Modern Library series should be commended for selecting this particular chapter. It is hard to imagine a better introduction to the Gettysburg Campaign. Stars in Their Courses is not only great history, it is great literature. Shelby Foote is an outstanding writer, one that happens, fortunately for us, to write history. In reviewing Foote's acclaimed historical narrative, one critic said, "It seems to me unlikely that it ever will be superseded."

Remarkably, Stars in Their Courses is entirely self-contained. A reader not familiar with Shelby Foote's writing would not realize that this Modern Library edition was actually a single chapter drawn from a much larger work. The reader has no need to reference any other sources.

Stars in Their Courses would make an excellent gift for that friend or family member that enjoys good literature, but heretofore has not developed an enthusiasm for the Civil War. The Modern Library edition is attractively bound, and printed on acid-free paper.

Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Killer Angels, would be a great companion gift to Stars in Their Courses. Shaara's focus is on specific participants in the three-day battle, especially Lee, Buford, Longstreet, Chamberlain, and Armistead. The Killer Angels was the basis for the epic movie, Gettysburg.

Stars in Their Courses (The Appomattox Saga, Book 8)

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Interesting and Twisted
Some what disappointing for Gilbert Morris

Stars in Their Courses (The Appomattox Saga, Book 8)
Gilbert Morris
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Frank Rocklin avoids formal conscription into the Federal army only to serve the North as a spy in a theater troupe touring behind enemy lines. Family loyalties are torn as they accuse him of being a Southern sympathizer. But will his love for a Southern actress or his duty to his country prevail?

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Interesting and Twisted.......2001-08-27

This book is one of the most interesting but twisting romance novels in the series. It keeps you in suspense with several dramatic conclusions. I would definitely read it if you are already reading the series.

Some what disappointing for Gilbert Morris.......2000-04-17

After all the wonderful books in the Appomattox Saga, I was slightly disappointed with the eigth one. Stars in Their Courses was still a good book, but it didn't keep me as entertained as the others.I would still reccommend it though.

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A. Molinari , INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ENRICO , L. Riccati , Wanda Maria Alberico , and M. Morando
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This book focuses on the ideas to embed nuclear physics in the larger context of hadronic physics by stressing and deepening its widening overlap with particle, astroparticle and condensed matter physics and to emphasize the unity of the two facets not only of nuclear, but of the whole physics; the theoretical and the experimental ones. Counteracting the ominous trend of enlarging the gap between the two, the danger being of depriving experimental physics of ideas promoting experiments and of transforming theoretical physics into metaphysics. The reader will find modern conceptions on nuclear structure, how atomic nuclei are probed through the scattering of high energy electrons and how they interact when accelerated at ultra-relativistic energies. The item connects to the quest for the quark-gluon plasma, perhaps the central theme of the contemporary hadronic physics, whose unraveling requires a vast and profound knowledge of both nuclear and particle physics, in particular QCD.

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The Stars and their Courses
Isaac Asimov
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The Stars and Their Courses
James H Jeans
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Stars in Their Courses

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James H. Jeans
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THE STARS IN THEIR COURSES
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Experimental Protocols for Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species is a translated, expanded, and fully updated of the Japanese book Experimental Protocols for Reactive Oxygen Research: assay methods, gene analysis, and pathophysiology models published in 1994. The aim of the book is to provide experimental protocols covering many aspects of free radical research: biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, genetics, physiology, and medicine. The protocols are all self-contained describing the equipment and reagents needed and then detailing the experimental procedure.

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A collection of cutting-edge techniques for measuring nitric oxide and the enzyme that produces it in biological tissues and fluids. These readily reproducible methods can be used to measure novel nitric oxide-related products such as protein nitration and nitrosation, as well as to express nitric oxide synthase in basic research and gene therapy using viral vectors.

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Nuts and bolts of NO assays.......2000-06-10

If you are a graduate student or a researcher getting your feet wet in nitric oxide assays, this book is an excellent starting place. The complete step-by-step breakdown of assays is vital to graduate students honing their experimental technique, and the variety of assays will benefit any basic science researcher. This is a very impressive, concise compilation of most assays you will require in nitric oxide work.

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Oriented Matroids (Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications)
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Oriented matroids are a very natural mathematical concept which presents itself in many different guises, and which has connections and applications to many different areas. These include discrete and computational geometry, combinatorics, convexity, topology, algebraic geometry, operations research, computer science and theoretical chemistry. This is the first comprehensive and accessible account of the subject. This book is intended for a diverse audience: graduate students who wish to learn the subject from scratch, researchers in the various fields of application who want to concentrate on certain aspects of the theory, specialists who need a thorough reference work, and others at points in between. A list of exercises and open problems ends each chapter, and the work is rounded off by an up-to-date and exhaustive reference list.

Computational Oriented Matroids: Equivalence Classes of Matrices within a Natural Framework

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Oriented matroids play the role of matrices in discrete geometry, when metrical properties, such as angles or distances, are neither required nor available. Thus they are of great use in such areas as graph theory, combinatorial optimization and convex geometry. The combination of concrete applications and computation, the profusion of illustrations, many in color, and the large number of examples and exercises make this an ideal introductory text on the subject. It will also be valuable for self-study for mathematicians and computer scientists working in discrete and computational geometry.

Linear Programming Duality: An Introduction to Oriented Matroids (Universitext)

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This book presents an elementary introduction to the theory of oriented matroids. The way oriented matroids are intro- duced emphasizes that they are the most general - and hence simplest - structures for which linear Programming Duality results can be stated and proved. The main theme of the book is duality. Using Farkas' Lemma as the basis the authors start withre- sults on polyhedra in Rn and show how to restate the essence of the proofs in terms of sign patterns of oriented ma- troids. Most of the standard material in Linear Programming is presented in the setting of real space as well as in the more abstract theory of oriented matroids. This approach clarifies the theory behind Linear Programming and proofs become simpler. The last part of the book deals with the facial structure of polytopes respectively their oriented matroid counterparts. It is an introduction to more advanced topics in oriented matroid theory. Each chapter contains suggestions for furt- herreading and the references provide an overview of the research in this field.

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Without question, The Annotated Christmas Carol is the most authoritative and entertaining edition ever produced.

What would Christmas be without A Christmas Carol? Charles Dickens's famous ghost story is as much a part of the season as plum pudding and mistletoe, and Michael Patrick Hearn, the celebrated annotator of The Wizard of Oz and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, has now prepared a sumptuous new edition of the Dickens classic. This latest contribution to the Norton annotated series delves into the engrossing history of the book's publication, when it first captivated Victorian England. This is the first edition to combine the original text of 1843 with Dickens's Public Reading text, which had its world premiere in America in 1867 and has not been reprinted in nearly a century. Also included are rare photographs as well as the original Leech wood engravings and hand-colored etchings. These are supplemented by other contemporary illustrations by George Cruikshank, Gustave Doré, John Tenniel, and "Phiz." The Annotated Christmas Carol will be a literary feast for the whole family for generations. 2-color, 100 black-and-white illustrations, and 8 pages of color.

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A Must Have for Christmas Carol Fans.......2007-06-23

This is a great edition of the novel, full of annotations that explain the meanings and usages of words from the time period. Although this story can - and is - enjoyed without the annotations, this version is a rich companion to the various other popular versions. It is also a fine looking volume. As to the story, we would be hard pressed to find people not familiar with A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, due to several movies the novel has spawned. I finally sat down and read the novel and am glad I did. The novel by the prolific and popular Dickens is well-written with great characters. That the author can generate such imagery and fully-realized characters in such a short story, is a testament to his staying power. This book packs an emotional punch, and is a great tale for the holidays, or any time you need to remind yourself to be thankful for what you have and those around you. A classic story and a must read. 5 stars.

Annotations get in the way.......2007-03-26

While the annotations are interesting I think I'd rather have them in a separate book of essays about Dickens and his world as I found them too distracting while trying to read the actual book.

Great Christmas Gift.......2007-01-16

I bought this as a Christmas gift for my husband. He loves it. It will take center stage on our coffee table every Christmas.

Adequate but still missing some spots.......2006-11-27

I have been reading "A Christmas Carol" almost every year at Christmas since my teens. My original copy was just about dead, and then I saw this. I already own the "Annotated Alice in Wonderland" and think it is wonderful, so I had high hopes for this book.

The annotations are great for literary stuff - influences on Dickens, prior work that is similar, the history of Christmas books, etc. The illustrations are also wonderful, not merely the original ones but also contemporary pictures of life in London as well as some other famous early illustrations of "A Christmas Carol", notably Gustave Dore.

It is much less informative when it comes to vocabulary. For example, in the first stave there is a description of Bob Cratchit going down a 'slide' on Cornhill. I have always known that this was unlikely to have been today's playground slide, but I didn't know what it was. There is no annotation to this question, but my question has been at least partially answered by an accompanying illustration which shows a plank of wood which has been coated with ice. In the same paragraph there is no explanation of the word comforter - not a filled quilted blanket, as today in America, but a long knitted scarf.

Overall, I have to give this an average rating, mainly because if you are going to do an annotation, you had better do it completely. This is especially true in this case where the author has had almost 20 years to fix things.

Adds layers of depth to the text.......2005-12-16

If you're like me and you had never read A Christmas Carol before, this is the one to read. If you're unlike me and you've read it 1 to 100 times before, I recommend reading this one and digging deeply into all the extra information provided. With all the archaic phrases and slang comments regarding things like locations in London, I'm uncertain how Americans over the years have truly felt as if they understood all the dialogue contained herein without the benefit of annotation.

I (like most, I imagine) knew a rough outline of the story but I knew nothing of the details or the language and style in which the story is presented. I am so glad I finally read it, and read this version! I never could have gotten as much out of this story as I did, had the annotation not been present. I often found myself detouring from the story itself, to read the story-behind-the-story about from where Dickens grabbed this line, or what this reference had to do with London life during this era, etc...

I picked this up at the library but there is enough information and depth in this book that I know I cannot uncover all its treasures in the time allotted from the library. In short, before I was even finished reading it, it had made its way to my "Books To Buy" list. There shall be many other books checked out, bought, read, and other topics looked into due to the notes given here. Also, for those of you who also just truly enjoy the presentation and physicality of a book, this is very nice. It has lovely reprints (color and b&w) of old drawings, engravings, covers of old editions, etc...

This great edition also sparked me into looking for more Annotated books, hoping this was part of a series. It turns out there are Annotated Brothers Grimm, Wizard of Oz, Huckleberry Finn, etc...! I have much good reading ahead of me.

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The Third Edition of this casebook uses materials to probe general and unifying themes of debtor-creditor law. In covering Article 9 and state debt collection doctrine, this text highlights and develops the connections between the two areas. The bankruptcy materials emphasize the relationship between bankruptcy law and state debtor-creditor law systems.

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