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This book begins with a promise: people with severe vision loss can be trained and equipped to function as sighted. The author, himself legally blind for 30 years, fulfills that promise with precise information and guidance on improving life through visual rehabilitation. The book explains fundamental facts about eyes and vision, including the causes and varieties of blindness, and then moves on to the new skills the partially sighted person must learn. Specific approaches and devices are covered in depth, including “eccentric viewing” and driving with telescopic glasses, and the visual and electronic aids that can help overcome the effects of vision loss. In spite of his own limited vision (20/240), Dr. Chapman uses a computer without a voice synthesizer, watches TV, and even drives, and he shows readers how to do the same.
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Millions of people, in the US and other parts of the world, face the grim prospect of losing their driving privileges, their mobility, and to a great extent their freedom, due to a deterioration in their eyesight or a disabling eye disease.
Driving with Confidence is an empowering tool. Its message is simple: In many cases, people with low vision can and do receive, retain and safely exercise their driving privileges.
The book presents a clear, no-nonsense discussion on the realities of low vision conditions, together with a practical program designed to help low vision individuals maximize their chances of retaining and/or extending their driving privileges. It also provides a detailed description of driving vision regulations in every state in the US.
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Driving with Confidence: A Practical Guide to Driving with L.......2003-01-13
The authors offer people with low vision an optimistic, do-it-yourself, down-to-earth approach to obtaining or retaining a driver's license.
My husband has age-related macular degeneration, and we have gone the rounds of doctors, specialists, laser and photodynamic-something-or-other treatments, plus the DMV.
This "practical guide" explains various eye diseases cataract, AMD, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, retinitis pigmentosa, optic atrophy, corneal dystrophy, stroke at least as clearly or maybe even more clearly as have the professionals whom we have consulted.
The guide urges readers to educate themselves about their state's DMV vision policy, investigate the various aids and devices available for vision-impaired drivers, and then come to their own conclusion as to whether they should be behind the wheel.
Among the amazing devices described in this guide are minifying mirrors by Brookstone, bioptic telescopes (Galilean and Keplerian) mounted on regular glasses, a telescope implanted in the eye, and the GPS-based iRadio system being developed by Motorola.
Surprise! there are personal trainers who specialize in teaching low-vision drivers!
The 104 pages of appendices are a valuable resource, providing definitions, contact information for further information and support, DMV vision requirements in 50 states plus D.C., and a bibliography.
This book is IN BIG PRINT! Very thoughtful.
Alison, Carson City, NV
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great resource for family or person adjusting to sight loss........1999-03-13
This book is a great place to start if you or a family member is experiencing loss of sight. It covers the eye, its diseases, feelings, and services. Very helpful!
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In The Way I See It, Dr. Myers shares her adventures of bumping into life with low vision. Survival tips included.
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A wonderful short read that YOU should look at...........2005-07-11
A nice little read about one woman's take on life, considering her (and a majority of her immediate family's) visual impairment. Written in a nice conversational, non-confrontational style (à la Patricia Heaton's "Motherhood and Hollywood" book"). Funny, personal, and interesting. A good book for anyone who's interested in a "non-victim" account of how it's like to live (and THRIVE) with a disability.
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Frances Neer is the author of a trilogy on changing eyesight, Dancing in the Dark, Perceiving the Elephant and Breaking Barriers. At last, Ms. Neer unveils the story of her life.
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This book goes beyond the normal boundaries of military history. Travelling extensively in Nepal, John Parker has met many Gurkhas to investigate the background to their traditional service to Britain and the threat that this is now under. He recounts famous battles during which these fighters collected a huge number of VCs, earning worldwide admiration.
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Ayo Gurkhali! .......2007-08-14
This inspired book takes the story of the famed Gurkhas up to more recent times. While Byron Farwell has covered much of this story in his earlier book about the Gurkhas in the Britsih army, John Parker provides a more up-to-date coverage. The book is also enlivened by the author's travelogue account of a recent visit to Nepal. Here he provides interesting descriptions of the beautiful, though forboding landscape, as well as the largely primitive living conditions. Nepal seems to be a country which time forgot, although perhaps that is slowly starting to change. Many interestig characters are also met en-route, including some famous Gurkha veterans who turn out to greet the visitors.
The author then launches into an historical account starting off with that fateful campaign of 1818 when British soldiers first encountered these hardy little fighters and soon wanted them as friends! Although conquered, the Gurkha's spirit was not broken, and it was these qualites that most impressed the British to begin their long term relationship with them. From that time until the present the Gurkha has been a devoted adjunct to British forces. They were far more trustworthy and less difficult than most Indian troops, and did not allow their religious beliefs to restrict their deployment anywhere. All have feared the Gurkha war cry of "Ayo Gurkhali" which means the Kurkris is about to strike! Fearless soldiers, they are also disciplined to a fault. Under their specially selected British officers, this pairing produces one of the most feared and respected combinations in modern military history. We should not discount how the British officers who were selected to lead the Gurkhas brought out the best of their martial qualites. On their own Gurkhas were firece fighters, but with their British officers they became both firece and disciplined.
I disagree with one reader who believes this book would have been twice as interesting if it included exploits of the Gurkhas in the new Indian army. Doubtless these soldiers have been an asset for India, but I doubt very much they have the same historical fascination as they do in the British army. Plus we have 189 years of history vs. only about 60! I think the historical interest and roll of battle honors goes to the service of the Gurkhas in the British army! Still, perhaps a chapter on the Indian army since partitition and how Gurkhas have been used might have been interesting. This awaits another book, but again, the interest to English speaking military historians might be a lot less.
The author brings the Gurkha story up to the present with an intersting chapter on the Falklands conflict and how the 7th King Edward's Own Gurkha Rifles terrorized the Argies into surrendering their whole garrison! The Gurkhas were at first crest-fallen that they did not get to drench their Kurkris with Argie blood, but then came to realize how their reputation virtually won the conflict, and this gave them some solace!
The last part of the book chronicles the ever changing environment in the British army. Much time is spent discussing the state of Gurkha veterans and what can be done to improve their pay and retirement. Certainly the MoD needs to address these issues and perhaps by now they have. The author does a good job weaving first-hand accounts and current interviews together into a compelling narrative. This seems a hallmark of his several books he has done already on elite military formations. Sadly the famous regimental names of the Gurkhas have gone and have been replaced by the bland sounding "Royal Gurkha Rifles", and numbers are way down, but the Gurkha presence in the British army continues to be a viable one. Long may it continue!
Quite a lot missing.......2001-04-06
Though this is a well written book and brings out the strength,courage and determination of the Gorkhas,it has hardly a mention of their real exploits during service with the Indian army.Their battles during the Indo-pak wars,China and Kargil have been completely ignored.The British may have employed them once but they are and always were an integral part of the Indian army and this fact is not at all focussed upon.
If the Author had actually attempted to get information about their service in the Indian army,the book would have been thrice as large,twice as interesting and quite heart-stopping.It is really sad that the most obvious expectation from the book has completely been ignored.
Excellent bbok to read for all Gurkha lovers!!!.......2001-02-24
Hi, One book you just want to read and keep on doing so.Kept reading it till i had to miss my meals until i finished it.It's a book that demonstrates the quality of these men, Gurkhas, their work and their deeds, it goes on to tell us about how these tough mean men are thoroughbred gentleman ,helping unfortunate ones in Hong Kong , Kosovo and so on.It is a book that at times made me cry that there are men out there who honour loyalty more than money in these selfish and greedy times of ours.God Bless them, and those who gave their lives for someone's else freedom.....
Entertaining account of very brave men.......2000-12-06
Is there anyone with an interest in militaria who has not heard of the Gurkhas ? Then let this book introduce you to the bravest men in any regiment of the British Army, with the most Victoria Crosses (highest British battle honour) to their name.
Packed with reminisences from the warriors themselves along with the author's competent overview and asides this is a fine testament to the men, their skill and their courage. Starting with the history of the first encounters between the Brits and the Gurkhas when they were on opposing sides in India, it continues with accounts of their Afghan frontier duties, exploits in two world wars and deployment in modern wars and in trouble zones such as Kosovo and Timor.
One of my favourite parts is the description of when a wounded Gurkha from a beseiged fort staggered to the British lines for medical treatment. The British treated him thinking this was a surrender whereupon he returned to the fort to take up his post and continue the fight leaving the Brits bemused and astounded by his bravado.
The Brits should consider themselves very lucky to have these brave and cheerful fighters on thier payroll and as the reviewer below points out, should better their pay right away. The Gurkhas may be the richest in Nepal but they don't have pay parity with Brit frontline troops as yet. And boy have they earned it.
The Gurkhas.......2000-06-23
The Gurkhas are considered to be the worlds most feared foot soldiers. The crack Nepalese troops have fought almost every British military caqmpaign since 1816. When WW1 broke out, virtually every Nepalese man of fighting age vounteered. The British no longer employ many Gurkhas, though, so there's now about 300 applicants for every vacancy. Some who fail to make the cut commit suicide rather than face the disgrace they think they bring upon their families. Wages and pensions paid to Gurkhas are now Nepals third biggest source of forein currency, but Parker points out that the Gurkhas are still being ripped off with paltry pensions after a career on the front line that often leaves them permanently maimed.
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Evan Thomas's John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy grounds itself on the facts of Jones's life and accomplishments to bolster his place among the pantheon of Revolutionary heroes while also working to deflate the myths that have circulated about his name. Jones, we learn, was confronted throughout his life with controversy and was crippled by ambition. But Thomas lauds Jones for early innovations as an American self-made man who rose from Scottish servitude.
Jones, despite his too brisk manner, was a true success, if not genius, as a naval captain. Early in the Revolutionary War, he captured a shipload of winter uniforms destined for General Burgoyne's army in Canada, which instead warmed General Washington's troops as they swept across the Delaware to defeat British at Princeton and Trenton. Later, Jones helped formulate the Navy's plan of psychological warfare on British citizens. And Jones's strategy to cut off the British fleet via the French Navy was arguably the most decisive strategic decision of the War.
In the end, Thomas makes a good case for a renewed appreciated for Jones's role in the broader revolution, citing his many connections to the Founding Fathers and his contributions to the broader war effort. While it may be that the John Paul Jones who proclaimed "I have not yet begun to fight" never existed, the real man behind the textbook legend is every bit as compelling a figure in Thomas's hands. This temperate biography situates Jones in what will likely prove durable fashion among portraits of Adams, Franklin, Washington, and Jefferson. --Patrick O'Kelley
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John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, "in harm's way." Evan Thomas's minute-by-minute re-creation of the bloodbath between Jones's Bonhomme Richard and the British man-of-war Serapis off the coast of England on an autumn night in 1779 is as gripping a sea battle as can be found in any novel.
Drawing on Jones's correspondence with some of the most significant figures of the American Revolution -- John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson -- Thomas's biography teaches us that it took fighters as well as thinkers, men driven by dreams of personal glory as well as high-minded principle, to break free of the past and start a new world. Jones's spirit was classically American.
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Background to US Navy Traditions.......2007-01-11
John Paul Jones was a historical figure, but I really did know much about him until reading this very well written story. I gave this book to a number of friends this year as a holiday gift. Jones made two voyages around England during the Revolutionary War sailing ships procured for him from France. There have been modern ships in the Navy named Ranger and Bon Homme Richard, but I did not know until reading this that those were the names of Jones ships during those famous voyages. After reading this you will know the answer to a great quiz show question which is who is the patron, that the ship, Bon Home Richard was named after. I look forward to reading the story that Evan Thomas just released describing American naval heroes of WWII.
An excellent and balanced account of Jones.......2006-12-30
I have to admit I bought this book because it was in the closeout bin and I got a deal on it. I next have to admit that it sat in a pile of books to read for at least three months before I got around to reading it. But on starting it, I was highly impressed. It's well paced, factual, well researched without being dry and scholarly.
First, I had no idea that his battles were fought off the English and Scottish coasts and that he was considered to be a pirate by the English- I always thought he fought battles off the American coast.
Second, I had no idea that he was so closely tied with Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and the closing stages of the French monarchy- nor that he served under Catherine the Great in helping her to gain a passage through the Black Sea.
Third, the personality of the man, greatly flawed in its insatiable desire for glory and honor, was balanced by an ability to fight-- and to WIN.
America wasn't a third-rate, fourth-rate or even a fifth-rate naval power during her Revolutionary War. America was essentially a "no rate." But Jones gave America victories when most others (with a few notable exception) did not. And he forced the British to bring home more of Her navy to protect home waters.
For those who have read any of the Horatio Hornblower or "Lucky Jack Aubrey" works of fiction, I recommend that they also read this book.
War is mostly waged by ordinary men- with fears, hopes, desires and needs like all of us. However, in every major conflict there a very few, like John Paul Jr., son of an English landscape gardener, who do more than their duty would dicate. For John Paul "Jones" it was his desire to be covered with glory and honor as well as his desire to build a winning AMERICAN Navy that caused him to push himselves and others far beyond the normal limits.
To "Jones", the thoughts of marriage, children, even his health were secondary to these.
I salute Evan Thomas for an excellent work about the father of the American Navy.
From Pirate to Hero.......2006-12-14
If you want to understand how the modern navy was born in America this is one of two books you will need. Understanding the mentality that drove our early navy to their few successes is a harrowing story that is told best here. This focuses on our lake fleets as well as our ocean fleets and does so in a very concise manner. The prose is very good and the information is well referenced. Anyone looking for information on the history of American navy will be well served with this book.
Don't judge this book by it's cover!.......2006-10-22
Don't judge this book by it's cover! (The cover is beautiful...)
I'll begin with the good things in the book. It has a decent overview of Jones' life and accomplishments. A first-time reader about Jones will find the catalog of his daring exploits both interesting and exciting. Evan Thomas's narration of the sea battles and manoeuvers are as thrillingly told as any of O'Brian's or Forester's epics. However, besides the battles, this book doesn't do much but echo the author's malicious conclusions about Jones.
Thomas seems to think that he is writing a Doctoral or Master's thesis and that we, as readers, continually forget what the main point of the book is. Don't be decieved, the author is not a fan of Jones. In striving to be "historically fair", we are faced with a book mainly about Jones's glaring shortcomings. Thomas has made it his goal to make sure we know that every single thing Jones did (from his letters to his heroics) was motivated by his "demon pride" (p. 310). It seems every paragraph begins or ends (sometimes both) with a scathing statement about Jones' lust for glory. Instead of stating the facts in an interesting narrative, we are faced with a continual repitition of Thomas' main thesis: Jones was not a hero, but a vain, glory-seeking upstart who wasn't even a good seaman. Often we get a sense that the thesis is wearing thin and completely falling apart. In order to buttress that, Thomas redundantly restates it lest we forget and start forming our own conclusions. Heaven forbid great men did great things for great reasons!
I have read scores of historical biographies and none have been as vitriolic towards their subject as Thomas is to Jones. Granted, Thomas does an effectual job belittling everyone, but I thought the part of the title "Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy" meant he liked Jones. It must have been added by someone else, for it doesn't reflect the author's views.
As I said previously, the book isn't without merit. It's battles are told very well, and the overview of Jones' accomplishments (and failures) are great. However, I would recommend reading another account of Jones that didn't seek to villify him and call it "historical fairness" (or whatever the term for giving more pages to his faults rather than his accomplishments is). If you want your conclusions dictated to you, read this book. If you prefer to draw them yourself, look elsewhere.
On Azure Waves.......2006-07-24
I am unaware of any hero from the American Revolution who was not flawed in some way, and John Paul Jones is no exception. But as always, the truth of their lives is much more compelling than the mythology of their lives: the actions and quotations invented about them by storytellers, which seemed to be necessary in order to cement their greatness in history (and probably to sell pamphlets and books), have only served to freeze them into short, individual moments of otherwise longer careers and lives.
There is a certain tragic sadness about the life of John Paul Jones, and Evan Thomas captures that sadness in this excellent biography. Jones was a man who, without a doubt, possessed a brilliance of naval tactics--tactics that provided the American cause with tangible cachet at its darkest hour--but a man who could never quite claim membership in the rarified company of Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin. Jones is the blue-water twin of George Washington: ambitious, dedicated, domineering, persevering, far-seeing, and challenged at every turn by lesser men, but the ducks of fate would never quite line up in his favor to boost his confidence beyond the flaws of his personality.
Evan Thomas' telling of Jones' story makes no apologies, spares no remonstrance. Thomas describes Jones through manic highs and lows, with revelations that can cause the reader to wince at Jones' more pitiful moments. But then a battle comes and Jones stands boldly, for honor not for gold, and sets aside his demons for a greater cause. Jones recognized his flaws and wrestled with them throughout his life. If anything, this struggle makes Jones greater--fully human and fighting to rise above his faults.
Aficionados of 18th century naval literature will appreciate Thomas' descriptions of the battles. Neophytes will appreciate Thomas' use of modern language and the glossary of 18th century naval terms in the back of the book.
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